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.
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.
Macroeconomics examines economic performance—output, inflation, interest and exchange rates—guiding monetary and fiscal policies that support equity and sustainable growth.
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 ...
The economist Rudi Dornbusch, who has died of cancer aged 60, was a rare combination of thinker and teacher. He not only tutored a generation of leading economists and policy-makers, but also gave ...
Stanley Fischer, the quietly powerful figure who influenced modern macroeconomics across academia, global financial institutions, and central banks, passed away on Saturday at the age of 81. His death ...
Antonio Rudiger set to sign Real Madrid extension as David Alaba prepares to depart the Santiago Bernabeu following a trophyless season.
Antonio Rudiger commits to new Real Madrid contract but David Alaba ...