One of the great questions facing China is whether or not its economy can continue to produce the rapid gains in welfare for its giant population that the country has witnessed over the past 30 years.

A couple weeks ago, I mused a bit about how developing countries graduate into the leagues of the world’s richest nations, specifically looking at the case of Malaysia. That country has been stuck at ...

In the bustling corridors of the World Bank's Annual Meetings this past October, a diverse group of finance ministers and policymakers from across the globe convened to tackle a pressing issue: the ...

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How does a poor country become a rich country? There's a simple blueprint — or at least, that's what many economists used to believe. But over the years, a lot of rapidly developing economies have ...

The author, a former vice chair of the National Economic Advisory Council for the President of South Korea, is distinguished professor of economics at Seoul National University. The term ...

India may be the fastest growing major economybut it will take 75 years for its per capita income to reach a quarter of U.S. income levels if current trends continue, the World Bank warned on Thursday ...

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