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What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...

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What factors predict how public sector projects perform? : a review of the World Bank's public sector management portfolio

Blum, Jürgen René - 2014

variables predict the performance of public sector management projects, as measured by the Independent Evaluation Group …'s project outcome ratings. The paper draws on data from a large sample of World Bank public sector management projects that were … performance of public sector management projects than on other projects. Specifically, public sector management projects perform …

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On the sustainable development goals and the role of Islamic finance

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Creative trade for human development

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Removing impediments to sustainable economic development : the case of corruption

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The lives and livelihoods of Syrian refugees in the Middle East : evidence from the 2015‒16 surveys of Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq...

Krishnan, Nandini; Russo Riva, Flavio; Sharma, Dhiraj; … - 2020

The Syrian crisis has led to rapid and large-scale population displacement. This paper has two main aims. (i) It documents the size and timing of the Syrian refugee influx into Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, characterizing the forced nature of displacement and exploring factors that influenced...

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