allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique … three main findings. First, 76 percent of the $27,400 salary gap across the average male and female staff at the World Bank … Group can be attributed to composition effects, whereby men entered the World Bank Group at higher paid positions …

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their … ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …

other donors to be policy selective. The World Bank?s aid program for lower-income countries, the International Development …

donor countries. Using a sample of World Bank trust funds, the paper examines the participation decisions of Organisation …

This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and …

relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …

(the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain …

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …