This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future … development efforts, including external assistance. Fifth, a new multi-polar world requires a new multi-polar approach to …

The World Bank Group recently adopted the "cascade framework" to "maximize finance for development." The cascade …

ratings after controlling for changes in the world weighted average rating. When relative ratings in 2012 are compared with … the first half of 2008, the world average rating is found to be weaker because of the financial crisis. The relative …