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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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Is it the journey that matters? : a fresh look at the impact of World Bank policy lending

Moll, Peter G.; Smets, Lodewijk - 2018

This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during the period 1998-2015. A new theoretical framework distinguishes among three effects that have been conflated hitherto: (a) marginal impacts of additional policy actions within...

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High-Powered Incentives and Communication Failure

Mishra, Ajit - 2015

This paper uses a donor-provider-agent framework to study the role of provider incentives for the delivery of developmental goods like aid, credit, or technology transfer to the poor. The paper considers a situation where credible communication by the provider is the key to successful delivery....

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Beyond Aid

Zoellick, Robert B. - 2011

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 models no longer fit current problems. The new "normal" will...

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World Bank Group assistance to low-income fragile and conflict-affected states : an independent evaluation

Weltbank - 2014

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Are they really being served? : assessing effective infrastructure access and quality in 15 Kenyan cities

Gulyani, Sumila; Rizvi, Andrea; Talukdar, Debabrata - 2019

This paper proposes a framework that examines three levels of access to infrastructure-nominal, effective, and quality-adjusted access. Most conventional indicators measure nominal access-whether a household has physical access to a service in or near the house. By contrast, effective access...

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Bright Lights, Big Cities : Measuring National and Subnational Economic Growth in Africa from Outer Space, with an Application to Kenya and Rwanda

Bundervoet, Tom - 2015

subnational 2013 gross domestic product for 47 counties in Kenya and 30 districts in Rwanda. Estimating subnational gross domestic …. For Kenya, the results of the analysis affirm that Nairobi County is the largest contributor to national gross domestic … official statistics in Kenya and Rwanda, it is important to estimate subnational gross domestic product using standard …

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The Drought and Food Crisis in the Horn of Africa : Impacts and Proposed Policy Responses for Kenya

World Bank - 2011

managed by the Government of Kenya and a number of international organizations including the World Food Program (WFP), the …

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Are trade preferences a Panacea? : the African Growth and Opportunity Act and African exports

Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019

three late-bloomers in East Africa offsetting the boom-bust pattern in Southern Africa and the never-significant response in … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

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CPIA Africa, July 2018 : Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions

World Bank Group - 2018

Favorable global economic conditions supported a turnaround in economic activity in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, easing …

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