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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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World Development Report

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.

IDA & GROWTH

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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Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, Ayhan Kose joins Expert Answers

GLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTS

Global Growth Is Stabilizing but at a Weak Level

To help us learn more, Deputy Chief Economist of the World Bank Group, Ayhan Kose joins Expert Answers to discuss.

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EXPANDED CRISIS TOOLKIT

Responding to Challenges and Overlapping Crises

Ed Mountfield, Vice President, Operations Policy and Country Services, explains how this toolkit can help address crises.

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"As economies grow larger, they also change the economic structures. So now, the policies that are needed to guide economies through the new structures need to be different, and yet countries find it very difficult to have policies and institutions that are compatible with these new economic structures."

Somik Lall, Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank Group

“The Middle Income Trap” and Race Against Time for Over 100 Countries | World Bank Expert Answers