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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 approximately USD 200 million on the provision of...
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This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
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performance. Concentrated private ownership has a stronger positive effect on performance than dispersed ownership in the post … collective ownership does not have a negative effect. In the post-communist economies new firms are equally or more efficient … private ownership, corporate governance, access to know-how and markets, and the legal and institutional system matter for …
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"Ownership and control over assets such as land and housing provide direct and indirect benefits to individuals and … the gender dimensions of asset ownership. This paper sets out a framework for researchers who are interested in collecting … data on individual level asset ownership and analyzing the gender asset gap. It reviews best practices in existing surveys …
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