World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

́political motives might reduce the effectiveness of conditionality, channel aid to inferior projects or affect the way aid is …

This paper develops a new model of trade policy under dictatorship and democratization. The paper makes two … is to show how a dictatorship can manipulate trade policy to maintain its grip on power in the face of permanent world …

This essay reviews the relationship between natural-resource abundance and economic growth around the world, and …

This paper formulates a general theory of how political unrest influences public policy. Political unrest is motivated … view of what is fair taking into account the current state of the world. If fewer aggregate resources are available …