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 …

absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to …

This paper examines how stringent de facto firing regulations affect firm size throughout the developing world. We …