Economic Growth

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Blog Post
After COVID-19: How to Pull Off the SDG Hat-Trick?
Christopher Hoy
and
Andy Sumner
July 20, 2020
To try to get back on track towards achieving the SDG poverty and inequality goals, developing country governments are seeking to pull off a hat-trick over the next decade: sustaining high rates of economic growth, eliminating poverty, and significantly reducing inequality. In a new CGD paper, we co...
WORKING PAPERS
Growth with Adjectives: Global Poverty and Inequality after the Pandemic
Christopher Hoy
and
Andy Sumner
July 20, 2020
In a post-COVID-19 context, what type of economic growth will most likely end global poverty and reduce inequality? We conclude that in the aftermath of the pandemic, countries will need to pursue historically unprecedented growth paths in order to achieve the poverty and inequality Sustainable...
WORKING PAPERS
The IMF’s Growth Forecasts for Poor Countries Don’t Match Its COVID Narrative
Justin Sandefur
and
Arvind Subramanian
May 14, 2020
The IMF’s forecasts of GDP growth in 2020 suggest a substantially muted impact of the COVID crisis for developing countries compared to advanced economies. We hope that the relative optimism will not induce complacency and elicit a less-than-forceful response by countries themselves nor legitim...
CGD NOTES
Reconciling SME Production in China with Coronavirus Control
Xiaobo Zhang
and
Ruixin Wang
February 28, 2020
With the steady decline in new confirmed cases of coronavirus in China beyond Hubei Province, public scrutiny has increasingly shifted to the economy affected by the outbreak, particularly the impact on the plethora of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). An earlier CGD note explored the impact of c...
CGD NOTES
The Impact of Coronavirus on China’s SMEs: Findings from the Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China
Rouchen Dai et al.
February 28, 2020
Since the coronavirus outbreak began in January, Chinese business activity has been severely slowed, affecting China’s position in the global industrial supply chain. The Enterprise Survey for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in China (ESIEC) launched a survey on the “condition of micro, small and me...
Blog Post
Is India’s Consumption Really Falling?
Josh Felman et al.
December 09, 2019
What do new figures from the leaked report from India's National Sample Survery (NSS) say about growth?
WORKING PAPERS
Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia
Gaurav Khanna et al.
October 31, 2019
Canonical models of crime emphasize economic incentive. Yet, causal evidence of sorting into criminal occupations in response to individual-level variation in incentives is limited. We link administrative socioeconomic microdata with the universe of arrests in Medellín over a decade. We explo...