This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition … support. The results are robust to controlling for non-World Bank aid, as well as various alternative specifications and …

This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during … the fact that over time the reform program changes from 'first-generation' to more complex 'second-generation' policy …

countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …

This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of … developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than USD 30 billion to its client countries. It also spends … countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for …

This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …