World Development Report 2024: Events

2024

Innovation Policy Effectiveness in Middle-Income Countries: Lessons from Impact Evaluation Studies

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Open Digital Payment infrastructure and Credit Access: Evidence from India’s UPI

SPEAKER: 
Pulak Ghosh
Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

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2023

The Path to Convergence: Reallocation, Responsiveness, and Growth

SPEAKER:
Javier Miranda
Deputy Head, Department of Structural Change and Productivity and the Halle Institute for Economic Research in German

➜ Paper | ➜ Presentation

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The Developmental Trinity: Institutions, Infrastructure, and Technology

SPEAKER:
Craig Chikis
Ph.D. economics candidate at the University of Chicago

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Labor Market Integration, Entrepreneur Sorting, and Regional Inequality

SPEAKER:
Ming Li
Assistant Professor of Economics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

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Distortions and Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

SPEAKER:
Roberto Fattal Jaef
World Bank

➜ Papers: 

• The Dynamics of Development; 
• Entry Barriers, Idiosyncratic Distortions, and the Firm Size Distribution

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Higher Education for Social Mobility and Talent Development: The Case of Chile

SPEAKERS:
Ricardo Paredes and Sebastian Gallegos 

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➜ Presentations: 

• Higher Technical Education in Chile (HTVE) (Paredes)
• The Evolution of Opportunities in Latin America’s Fastest Growing Country: 50 years of Evidence (Gallegos)

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Trade, Firms, and Economic Development

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Plant-level View of Korea’s Growth Miracle and Slowdown

SPEAKER:
Munseob Lee
UC San Diego

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Innovative Korea (World Bank report)

SPEAKERS:
Hoon Soh and Anwar Aridi
World Bank

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Migration, Innovation, and Growth: Lessons for Middle Income Countries

SPEAKER: 
Marta Prato
Bocconi University

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