Growth is the essential ingredient for sustained poverty reduction. The Macroeconomics and Growth Research Program focuses on identifying the contribution of policies and institutional changes to the diversity in growth and aggregate economic performance around the world.
Macroeconomics examines economic performance—output, inflation, interest and exchange rates—guiding monetary and fiscal policies that support equity and sustainable growth.
The Macroeconomics, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department that invites leading researchers to present their recent research in a seminar format.
The series invites leading researchers from the fields of macroeconomics, growth, trade, international integration, and finance to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.
Roberto N. Fattal Jaef is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth team of the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency. His research interests cover various areas of macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on economic growth. Current and recent research topics include: 1) understanding the role of market distortions for firm level behavior, entrepreneurship, and long ...
Abel ABEL ā’ bəl (הֶ֨בֶל, LXX ̓Αβελ, etymology uncertain; breath, vanity, fragility, vapor or son have been suggested). The second son of Adam and Eve and the brother or possibly the twin of his jealous murderer, Cain.
Abel’s blood, although the blood of a righteous man (Matt. 23:35), cannot atone, but Christ’s blood is ever efficacious (1 John 1:7). Abel is unique among Bible men in a fourfold direction: He was the first one of the human race to die. He was the first person on the earth to be murdered. He was the first man to be associated with Christ.