Intro -- Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Synthesis -- Part 1 - Markets -- 1 - Recoupling or Switchover? Developing Countries in the Global Economy -- 2 - Technological Learning: Climbing a Tall Ladder -- 3 - Trading Places: International Integration after the Crisis -- 4 - Exports and the Competitiveness Agenda: Policies to Support the Private Sector -- 5 - Natural Resources and Development Strategy after the Crisis -- 6 - The Times, They Are "A-changin": A New Look at International Economic and Financial Policy -- 7 - Macroprudential Policies in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis -- 8 - Finance in Crisis: Causes, Lessons, Consequences, and an Application to Latin America -- Part 2 - Governments -- 9 - Tales of the Unexpected: Rebuilding Trust in Government -- 10 - Fiscal Quality: A Developing Country's Priority -- 11 - Public Expenditure after the Global Financial Crisis -- 12 - Debt Management and the Financial Crisis -- 13 - Subnational Debt Finance: Make It Sustainable -- 14 - Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Next Decade -- Part 3 - People -- 15 - Poverty, Equity, and Jobs -- 16 - Investing in Gender Equality: Looking Ahead -- 17 - The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Migration and Remittances -- Part 4 - Regions -- 18 - Africa: Leveraging Crisis Response to Tackle Development Challenges -- 19 - East Asia and the Pacific Confronts the "New Normal" -- 20 - Europe and Central Asia: A Time of Reckoning -- 21 - A Brave New World for Latin America -- 22 - The Financial Crisis, Recovery, and Long-Term Growth in the Middle East and North Africa -- 23 - Economic Policy Challenges for South Asia -- About the Editors and Authors -- Index -- Back Cover.

The global financial crisis of 2008-09 did not just change the global economic order. It also changed the way we think about that order. Principles and practices that were once accepted wisdom are now in doubt or discredited. New, fundamental questions opened. And the search for answers has barely begun. For the developing world, that conceptual uncertainty is particularly uncomfortable-through a mix of good policies and good luck, they had begun to achieve real progress. Will all that now be derailed? What does the new horizon bring to them? Can they find new policy ideas that will turn the shock of the crisis into a final run toward "developed" status? How does the future look when seen from various geographic regions?Those are the kind of questions that we asked, in the summer of 2010, to some 40 development professionals working at the World Bank. This book is an unfiltered collection of their views. As seasoned practitioners in the leading development institution, they have a unique perspective from which to visualize, we would dare say "to sense," what may be coming. Some of them look at the big picture of the role that the developing world is about to play, and how it will play it. Others walk us through the conceptual links around specific issues that will affect that world-say, the likely evolution of macro-financial regulation. And others take us to continents and countries, teach us about their realities, and tell us how things will differ in the coming years. Put together, they paint a picture of reasoned optimism.

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