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

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 …

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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 …