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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 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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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa
Alpino, Matteo - 2020
allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841687
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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings
Geli, Patricia - 2017
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 …
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975644
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Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation : Experiences from International Development
Bamberger, Michael - 2017
This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976624
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Child Growth, Shocks, and Food Aid in Rural Ethiopia
Yamano, Takashi - 2017
Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several droughts during this period, it also received enormous amounts of food aid, leading some to question the effectiveness of food aid in reducing child malnutrition. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966159
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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 … countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835417
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Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841192
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Taxation Without Representation? Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action Toward Taxes, Oil, and Aid
de la Cuesta, Brandon - 2017
Seminal arguments in political economy hold that citizens will more readily demand accountability from governments for taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana and Uganda probe the effects of different revenue types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951505
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Famine and the Aid Response : Evidence from the Announcement of Famine-Like Conditions in the Republic of Yemen
Tandon, Sharad - 2019
Using a high-frequency mobile phone survey of food security conducted by the World Food Programme, this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888868