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 …

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank, addressed the following issues: seeds of crisis; the changing context …; responsible globalization; the current role of the World Bank Group; the role of the World Bank Group in a new post-crisis World …; and the reform agenda. He pointed to four aspects of Group's future role: development finance; delivering knowledge …

This paper presents the main findings of the 2017 survey on national development banks that the World Bank conducted in … collaboration with the World Federation of Development Financing Institutions. Sixty-four development banks from different parts of … the world, mainly from middle-income countries, participated in the survey …

integrated. As a result, actions to address climate change including World Bank Group investment and lending are missing …