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Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper …
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World Bank Group President David Malpass spoke about how in its first year, the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is …, and how World Food Programme (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has estimated that the number of people … hundred twelve countries so far. He explained that in response to the global food security crisis, the World Bank Group has …
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countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …
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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 …
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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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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, remarked that the millennium development goals (MDGs) created a metric of … accountability for which humanity will hold the World Bank answerable. It also created a vital tool for measuring progress. The MDGs … Gakuba's efforts to create jobs for rural women. The World Bank is developing an Africa action plan with 25 initiatives to …
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, discussed the following topics. The Bank is helping many manage the …
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allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
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The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016: Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change details the progress toward the global development goals and examines the impact of demographic change on achieving these goals. Part I examines global development progress, the unfinished development...
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