Growth is the essential ingredient for sustained poverty reduction. The Macroeconomics and Growth Research Program focuses on identifying the contribution of policies and institutional changes to the diversity in growth and aggregate economic performance around the world.
The Macroeconomics, Trade, and Finance Seminar Series is a weekly series hosted by the World Bank's research department that invites leading researchers to present their recent research in a seminar format.
Macroeconomics examines economic performance—output, inflation, interest and exchange rates—guiding monetary and fiscal policies that support equity and sustainable growth.
The series invites leading researchers from the fields of macroeconomics, growth, trade, international integration, and finance to present the results of their most recent research in a seminar format.
Roberto N. Fattal Jaef is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics and Growth team of the World Bank’s Development Economics Vice-Presidency. His research interests cover various areas of macroeconomics, with a special emphasis on economic growth. Current and recent research topics include: 1) understanding the role of market distortions for firm level behavior, entrepreneurship, and long ...
Exception: Even though 11th, 12th, and 13th end in 1, 2, and 3, they still take “th” because of their special spelling and pronunciation: 11th, 12th, 13th (not 11st, 12nd, or 13rd) Common Uses of Ordinal Numbers in English Ordinal numbers are used in everyday English to show position, order, or rank in many real-life situations.
The correct form is 11th, not 11st. This rule applies because ordinal numbers in English always end with the last two letters of the word written out fully. For example, “first” ends in “st,” “second” ends in “nd,” “third” ends in “rd,” and “ fourth ” ends in “th.” Most numbers ending in one, two, or three follow the endings of first, second, and third ...