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How is sectoral employment shifts helping to reduce poverty in Tanzania? A research from the World Bank responds to this question by analyzing data from the National Panel Survey (NPS), a household survey conducted in 2014-15 and 2020-21 by the National Bureau of Statistics.
The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration EGC Research Summary, March 2023 Understanding the obstacles to growth and productivity in low- and middle-income countries is essential to creating policy solutions that can lift people out of poverty. One common explanation for gaps in growth rates between countries is that lower-income countries do a poor job of matching workers to the jobs in which they would be the most productive.
January 18, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order that identifies the virtual currency exchange Bitzlato...
<p><span>In my first speech as Vice Chair for Supervision in September, I said that the Federal Reserve Board would soon engage in a holistic review of capital standards. My argument, then and now, is that our review of regulatory policy must be a periodic feature of bank oversight. Banking and the financial system continuously evolve, and regulation must adapt to address emerging risks. Bank capital is strong, but in doing our review, we should and are being humble about our ability—or that of bank managers—to predict how a future financial crisis might unfold,...
Research by Cornell and the U.S. Department of Agriculture offers the first estimates of food pantries' economic value to families, highlighting their important role in addressing food insecurity.