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World Bank Group specialists will explain various development concepts and how they can help us end poverty.


Every episode of Expert Answers sits you down with a World Bank specialist. Our goal is to help you understand some of the biggest issues in international development today by asking our colleagues about what works on the ground and what we can do to meet the biggest global challenges.

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Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Global Director for Poverty and Equity, Expert Answers
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Poverty, Prosperity and Planet Report

Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Global Director for Poverty and Equity, shares key findings, including where we stand and how to move the dial.
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Norman Loayza, Director of the World Bank’s Global Indicators Group - Expert Answers
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Enabling Businesses To Thrive

What do economies need to do to enable businesses to thrive, for the benefit of society as a whole? Norman Loayza, Director of the World Bank’s Global Indicators Group, explains.
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Somik Lall, Director of the latest World Bank Group World Development Report, joins Expert Answers.
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The Middle-Income Trap

What can middle-income countries do to elevate themselves into the higher-income bracket? Somik Lall, Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, joins us.
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World Bank Group Senior Economist, Collette Wheeler joins Expert Answers.
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The Great Reversal: World’s Most Vulnerable Countries

World Bank Group Senior Economist, Collette Wheeler delves into how countries can capitalize on their strengths.
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"Growth has to be very inclusive. What that means is those at the bottom of the income distribution, the poorest and the most vulnerable, have to be also more proactively engaged in that process of economic growth and benefiting from it."
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Global Director for Poverty and Equity, World Bank - Poverty, Prosperity and Planet: Where We Stand and How To Move the Dial | World Bank Expert Answers
Luis Felipe Lopez-Calva, Global Director for Poverty and Equity, World Bank
Poverty, Prosperity and Planet: Where We Stand and How To Move the Dial | World Bank Expert Answers