Aart Kraay
World Bank
165 Papers
1.4K Citations
Aart Kraay is an academic researcher from World Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 165 publications. Previous affiliations of Aart Kraay include Yale University & International Monetary Fund.
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Papers
The dot-com bubble, the Bush deficits, and the U.S. current account
Aart Kraay,Jaume Ventura +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, two alternative interpretations of stock market movements and budget deficits are presented, based on the notion that a bubble (the dot-com) has been driving the stock market, but differ in their assumptions about the interactions between this bubble and fiscal policy (the Bush" deficits).
Do Poverty Traps Exist
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the empirical evidence on the existence of poverty traps, understood as self-reinforcing mechanisms through which poor individuals or countries remain poor, and found that truly stagnant incomes of the sort predicted by standard models of poverty trap are in fact quite rare.
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Governance Indicators, Aid Allocation, and the Millennium Challenge Account
Daniel Kaufmann,Aart Kraay +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the implications of margins of error in governance data, the difficulties in measuring trends, and the need to complement existing cross-country indicators with in-depth country diagnostics.
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The worldwide governance indicators: methodology and analytical issues
TL;DR: The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project as discussed by the authors is a collection of six dimensions of governance starting in 1996: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption.
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