The Office of the ECA Chief Economist regularly monitors research that is either directly related to the region's socio-economic challenges or addresses broader issues. This research, which is of interest to the wider academic community, is shared via relevant World Bank and external blog platforms.
- The challenges and promises of productive aging
Michael Lokshin | September 7, 2023 - Expanding the benefits of financial services
Leora Klapper, Saniya Ansar & Dorothe Singer \ June 28, 2023 - Was the COVID crisis a source of creative destruction?
Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt & Dorothe Singer \ March 3, 2023 - Europe and Central Asia faces another year of weak growth amid high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis
Ivailo Izvorski | April 6, 2023 - The loss of human capital in Ukraine
Noam Angrist, Simeon Djankov, Pinelopi K. Goldberg, Harry A. Patrinos \ April 27, 2022 - What we’re reading about job tenure in European labor markets
Maurizio Bussolo, Michael M. Lokshin & Kevwe Pela | April 12, 2023 - Quality of computer code and reproducibility of economic research
Michael M. Lokshin & Zurab Sajaia | December 12, 2022 - Save your environment: The (often) overlooked problem of research reproducibility in economics
Michael M. Lokshin & Zurab Sajaia | November 16, 2022 - The Global Findex Database 2021 identifies opportunities for increasing financial inclusion
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Leora Klapper, Dorothe Singer & Saniya Ansar \ June 30, 2022 - Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19 in Europe and Central Asia
Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt & Dorothe Singer \ December 7, 2021 - Dematerialization, degrowth, and climate change agenda
Michael M. Lokshin | May 4, 2021 - Opening-up for a strong economic recovery: Lessons from the first wave of COVID-19
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael M. Lokshin & Iván Torre \ December 22, 2020 - A banking sector pandemic
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Alvaro Pedraza & Claudia Ruiz \ August 21, 2020 - The sooner, the better: Early lockdowns save more lives and livelihoods
Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Michael Lokshin and Iván Torre \ July 9, 2020 - Improving social protection by reaping the gains from international migration
Michael Lokshin & Martin Ravallion \ September 27, 2019