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

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 …

Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the following topics. The Bank is helping many manage the …

Robert B. Zoellick, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about leaving behind the past and facing today …'s challenges squarely, constructively, and creatively. This is not the 1944 world that surrounded the creation of the Bank. Old … responsible stakeholders in an interdependent global economy. Zoellick spoke of what this new world means for development. Modern …

This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during …

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 …