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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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The World Bank and governance : the bank’s efforts to help developing countries build state capacity

De Janvry, Alain; Dethier, Jean-Jacques - 2012

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How does the World Bank influence the development policy priorities of low-income and lower-middle income countries?

Knack, Stephen F.; Parks, Bradley; Harutyunyan, Ani; … - 2020

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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Mobilization effects of multilateral development banks

Broccolini, Chiara; Lotti, Giulia; Maffioli, Alessandro; … - 2020

This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...

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Transport policies and development

Berg, Claudia; Deichmann, Uwe; Liu, Yishen; Selod, Harris - 2015

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Non-renewable resources, fiscal rules, and human capital

Levine, Paul; Melina, Giovanni; Onder, Harun - 2016

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Built to Last : sustainability of early childhood education services in rural Indonesia

Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; … - 2019

This paper studies the sustainability of early childhood education centers established under a large-scale, donor … student fees. The paper estimates a series of logistic regression models to predict center sustainability. Centers that … major factor for sustainability. There is also no evidence to suggest that, while they were operating, closed centers …

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