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 …

This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using … a large dataset of 110864 firms spanning 121 countries between 2001 and 2016. We find that, contrary to the World Bank …

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