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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries?
Knack, Stephen - 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 $30 billion to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of...
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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending
Moll, Peter G. - 2017
This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 and 2012. The paper uses a data set constructed of individual loan characteristics and ex-post loan ratings produced by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972006
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Mdgs that Nudge : The Millennium Development Goals, Popular Mobilization, and the Post-2015 Development Framework
Gauri, Varun - 2017
The Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015, were a global agreement to promote human development and reduce poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific actors, nor were they, in many respects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974794
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The World Bank and Governance : The Bank's Efforts to Help Developing Countries Build State Capacity
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible results and advocating specific development policies. Section 1 provides some conceptual underpinnings for the view that an effective state is essential for development. It asks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974812
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Does Involvement of Local Ngos Enhance Public Service Delivery? Cautionary Evidence from a Malaria-Prevention Evaluation in India
Das, Ashis - 2017
Using data from an experimental supportive intervention to India's malaria control program, this paper studies the impact of leveraging local non-state capacity to promote mosquito net usage and recommended fever care-seeking patterns. The supportive activities were conducted simultaneously by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973095
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Spatial Distributions of Job Accessibility, Housing Rents, and Poverty in Nairobi, Kenya
Nakamura, Shohei - 2018
distributions of job accessibility, housing rents, and poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. It finds that workers and jobs are not well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907419
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Survey of the Kenyan Private Equity and Venture Capital Landscape
Divakaran, Shanthi - 2018
This paper discusses the landscape for private equity and venture capital financing in Kenya. It provides an overview …/regulatory/taxation drivers and impediments that affect Kenya?s private equity and venture capital industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910251
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Enhancing Young Children's Language Acquisition Through Parent-Child Book-Sharing : A Randomized Trial in Rural Kenya
Knauer, Heather Ashley - 2019
83- month-old children ages 24 to 83 months (n = 510) in rural Kenya. The first treatment group received storybooks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892693
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Replication Redux : The Reproducibility Crisis and the Case of Deworming
Ozier, Owen - 2019
In 2004, a landmark study showed that an inexpensive medication to treat parasitic worms could improve health and school attendance for millions of children in many developing countries. Eleven years later, a headline in the Guardian reported that this treatment, deworming, had been "debunked."...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871421
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Learning from Power Sector Reform : The Case of Kenya
Godinho, Catrina - 2019
Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … complementary entities. Although the government retains majority ownership of the largest power utilities in the country (Kenya … Power, ~51 percent; KenGen, ~70 percent), Kenya has been able to position itself as one of the foremost destinations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012872173