The World Bank Economic Review - Volume 34 - Issue 1 - 2020 Index

Jul 19, 2026

Collection of articles in The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 34, 2020, Number 1, covering development economics topics across migration, trade, public policy, governance, and human development. Articles address earnings and perceived mortality among Nepalese migrants, export competitiveness, the need for IT in poor countries, urbanization and child nutrition outcomes, and productivity effects from taxation and misallocation. Additional coverage includes e-government and government capacity, the global trade slowdown, NGO activism against multinationals, and spillovers from employment guarantee programs, plus evidence on rainfall shocks and agricultural income changes.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages261

Reading Time10 h 58 min

AccessFree to download

Articles in this issue

Migration, skills, and labor outcomes

Trade, exports, and productivity

Governance, digital policy, and public procurement

Social outcomes: children, labor, and health shocks

Agriculture and household income

Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized Pub lic Disclosure Authorized ISSN 0258-6770 (PRINT) ISSN 1564-698X (ONLINE) THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW Volume 34 • 2020 • Number 1 Get Rich or Die Tryin’: Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rates, and Migration Decisions of Potential Work Migrants from Nepal Maheshwor Shrestha The Origins and Dynamics of Export Superstars Caroline Freund and Martha Denisse Pierola Do Poor Countries Really Need More IT? Maya Eden and Paul Gaggl Urbanization and Child Nutritional Outcomes Mulubrhan Amare, Channing Arndt, Kibrom A. Abay, and Todd Benson Taxing the Good? Distortions, Misallocation, and Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa Xavier Cirera, Roberto Fattal-Jaef, and Hibret Maemir Does E-Government Improve Government Capacity? Evidence from Tax Compliance Costs, Tax Revenue, and Public Procurement Competitiveness Anna Kochanova, Zahid Hasnain, and Bradley Larson The Global Trade Slowdown: Cyclical or Structural? Cristina Constantinescu, Aaditya Mattoo, and Michele Ruta The Geography of NGO Activism against Multinational Corporations Sophie Hatte and Pamina Koenig The Spillovers of Employment Guarantee Programs on Child Labor and Education Tianshu Li and Sheetal Sekhri Early Rainfall Shocks and Later-Life Outcomes: Evidence from Colombia Bladimir Carrillo The Impact of Positive Agricultural Income Shocks on Rural Chinese Households Jessica Leight Development and the Labor Share Paul Maarek and Elsa Orgiazzi [academic.oup.com/wber](academic.oup.com/wber) Downloaded from [https://academic.oup.com/wber/issue/34/1](https://academic.oup.com/wber/issue/34/1) by International Monetary Fund user on 23 June 2021 THE WORLD BANK ECONOMIC REVIEW editors Eric Edmonds, Dartmouth College Nina Pavcnik, Dartmouth College co-editors Francisco H. G. Ferreira, World Bank Karla Hoff, World Bank Leora Klapper, World Bank Aart C. Kraay, World Bank David J. McKenzie, World Bank Luis Servén, World Bank editorial board Lori Beaman, Northwestern University, USA Haroon Bhorat, University of Cape Town, South Africa Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, USA Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, World Bank Ashwini Deshpande, Delhi University, India Pascaline Dupas, Stanford University, USA Eduardo Engel, University of Chile, Chile Claudio Ferraz, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Brazil Frederico Finan, University of California, Berkeley, USA Andrew Foster, Brown Univserity, USA Beata Javorcik, Oxford University, UKAprajit Mahajan, University of California, Berkeley, USA Stelios Michalopoulos, Brown Univserity, USA Ahmed M. Mobarak, Yale University, USA Yaw Nyarko, New York University, USA Albert Park, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong Sandip Sukhtankar, Virginia University, USA Romain Wacziarg, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Christopher Woodruff, Oxford University, UK The World Bank Economic Review is a professional journal used for the dissemination of research in development economics broadly relevant to the development profession and to the World Bank in pursuing its development mandate. It is directed to an international readership among economists and social scientists in government, business, international agencies, universities, and development research institutions. The Review seeks to provide the most current and best research in the field of quantitative development policy analysis, emphasizing policy relevance and operational aspects of economics, rather than primarily theoretical and methodological issues. Consistency with World Bank policy plays no role in the selection of articles. The Review is managed by one or two independent editors selected for their academic excellence in the field of development economics and policy. The editors are assisted by an editorial board composed in equal parts of scholars internal and external to the Wo

FAQs

This issue of The World Bank Economic Review focuses on what general areas?

It covers development economics research, including migration decisions, trade and productivity, governance and e-government, and social outcomes such as child nutrition and labor.

Which studies in this issue address migration decisions?

The issue includes “Get Rich or Die Tryin’: Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rates, and Migration Decisions of Potential Work Migrants from Nepal”.

What kinds of policy or institutional topics are included?

The issue features work on export superstars and trade slowdowns, taxation and productivity distortions, and whether e-government improves government capacity and compliance costs.

Jul 19, 2026

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