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The India Paradox: Promoting Competitive Industries in a High-Growth Country
India’s economic growth rate in the past decade has been nothing short of spectacular. With its GDP growth around 7 to 9 percent per year, India is the second-fastest-growing large economy in the...
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What's Singapore got to do with it?
A daunting development challenge will confront us for the next decade: More than 1 million jobs per month – every month, for a decade or more – will need to be created to raise the living standards of...
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From Old Taboo to New Consensus: ‘Industrial Policy’ and ‘Competitive...
Economic development succeeds best when public policy and the private sector work in harmony, not at cross-purposes. That’s the idea at the heart of the efforts by two former Chief Economists of the...
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Can industries take flight in conflict situations?
The World Bank is actively expanding its portfolio in the world’s most troubled conflict zones. This invites the question: What can the Bank accomplish in countries riven by conflict? I would flip this...
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The Alchemy of Achievement: ‘Go for the Gold’ by Planning for Competitiveness
Success doesn’t just happen automatically – not in the economy, and not in any competitive arena of life. But by focusing your resources realistically in the areas of your greatest strength, you can...
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For Jobs and Growth, a Focus on Competitiveness
How can we spur competitive industries? Tune in Saturday, October 13 at 10:30 JST to hear from Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , Minister of Finance, Nigeria; Hideto Nakahara, Senior Executive Vice President,...
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Competitiveness and Innovation take center stage in Brussels Conference
One of the year’s largest conferences focusing on international development, European Development Days (EDDs) will be convened by the European Commission this week in Brussels, bringing together about...
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How to build a sustainable competitiveness platform?
In the wake of the first global recession since World War II, governments around the world are looking for ways to boost growth and competitiveness. Given the fragility of the business and economic...
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‘Growth Through Innovation’: Toward a Competitiveness Consensus
In geometry, three points define a plane. In journalism, three events establish a trend. In public policy, three strategy forums might not conclusively confirm a consensus – but a recent think-tank...
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How to create 100 million jobs
How can countries create 600 million jobs for its citizens? As the World Bank convenes its Spring Meetings in Washington this week to discuss the state of international development, the question on...
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You need to be outrageously aspirational when you take on a growth pole
Growth poles can help create jobs for Africa's one billion citizens (Credit: World Bank) We were asked the other day by our senior management to be outrageously aspirational when we engage with growth...
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Innovating to get things done: Lessons from an industrial park program in India
Successful industrial parks can drive economic competitiveness (Credit: World Bank, Flickr)Why do so many industrial park programs fail? They are popular across the developing world, inspired perhaps...
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Competitive Cities: Driving Productivity and Prosperity
The developing world is home to the cities of the future (Credit: FullofTravel, Flickr Creative Commons)The future will be won or lost in the world’s cities. With half of humanity now living in cities...
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Cities’ Elusive Quest for a Post-Industrial Future
What do rusting industrial cities have in common with outmoded BlackBerries? In this era of constant technological progress, talent mobility and global competition, it's striking how many similarities...
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Innovator-in-Chief: The Public Sector – Catalyst of Creativity
Brace yourself for some dramatic new evidence about innovation and entrepreneurship – and and circle the dates October 16 and 17 on your calendar.Propelling leading-edge ideas about competitiveness,...
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Sri Lanka - Resplendent Island, Raring to Deliver
Sri Lanka conjures up different images in the minds of different people: lush green tropical canopies, steaming cups of aromatic tea, and hardworking fishermen in their dinghy boats.For me, the...
View ArticleHave 'Special Economic Zones' Entered the 21st Century Yet? A Tale of Two Cities
At the World Free Zone Convention in Izmir, Turkey, which I attended in December, an important question was asked: Have "Special Economic Zones" entered the 21st Century? Evidence shows that, in...
View ArticleSpeed Bumps Along the Road to Competitiveness: In Egypt (and Elsewhere),...
CAIRO – It’s an axiom of economic policy: The future belongs to the efficient, in a relentlessly competitive global marketplace that bestows outsized rewards on those who manage to get just one step...
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From Old Taboo to New Consensus: ‘Industrial Policy’ and ‘Competitive...
Economic development succeeds best when public policy and the private sector work in harmony, not at cross-purposes. That’s the idea at the heart of the efforts by two former Chief Economists of the...
View ArticleShaping the Debate on Promoting Jobs and Competitiveness in Small Island...
The United Nations has declared 2014 as the International Year of Small Island Developing States (SIDS), in recognition of the contributions this group of countries has made to the world, and to raise...
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