World Bank: A Hummingbird on the Firing Line
Attempts to submit the World Bank to bilateral agendas or extreme views can only harm and paralyze the hummingbird Last week Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank,…
Attempts to submit the World Bank to bilateral agendas or extreme views can only harm and paralyze the hummingbird Last week Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank,…
Like the "Sagrada Familia" in Barcelona (photo), institutions are built gradually. Evolution, rather than revolution... By Otaviano Canuto and Tiago Ribeiro dos Santos Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson caught…
Globalization will help world realize innovative potential By Otaviano Canuto | China Daily | Updated: 2018-09-05 Globalization has come under fire in recent years, with people in some countries…
The diffusion of knowledge and technology worldwide in recent decades has brought important changes to the global innovation landscape. But those changes could be much more profound if countries created more supportive investment environments.
Realising globalisation’s innovative potential By Otaviano Canuto Published : August 14, 2018 WASHINGTON, DC – Globalization has come under fire in recent years, with people in some countries becoming increasingly…
Mad Hat Economics Podcast - Gender Equality Gender Equality For this episode we’re joined by Otaviano Canuto of the World Bank to talk about how gender equality promotes development. Hosted by…
3 July 2018 - Otaviano Canuto How innovation can flow from globalisation il issue of the International Monetary Fund's World Economic Outlook included a chapter on how globalisation has…
What are the effects of disruptive technologies on global trade? To help us understand the economics in the tech revolution, we interviewed Otaviano Canuto, a Brazilian economist and Executive…
08 May 2018 - Otaviano Canuto The April issue of the IMF’s “World Economic Outlook (WEO)” included a chapter on how globalization has helped knowledge from technology leaders spread…
It is with great pleasure that ECON+ brings you another conversation with Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director at the World Bank, to continue this series of interviews on the global economy.…
19 April 2018 - Otaviano Canuto Manufacturing expansion has been a vehicle for job creation, productivity increases, and growth in non-advanced economies since the second half of the last…
As a growth strategy for low-income countries, the efficacy of traditional manufacturing is waning. To compete in the technology-driven global economy of the future, developing countries will need new models to increase productivity and put people to work.
Brazilian “conditional cash transfers” are small amounts of money distributed by the government directly to very poor households on condition that their children attend school and are vaccinated. Do…
Current technological developments in manufacturing are likely to lead to a partial reversal of the wave of fragmentation and global value chains that was at the core of the rise of North-South trade from 1990 onward. At the same time, China – the main hub of the global-growth-cum-structural-change of that period – may attempt to extend the previous wave through its One Belt, One Road initiative.
It is 2018 and ECON+ is delighted to start the year off with another fantastic conversation with Otaviano Canuto, Executive Director at the World Bank, to continue this series of…