Bridging the external financing gap has been an important factor in borrowing cgovernment's demand for World Bank loans …

This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible … large aid flows. Section 2 sketches the historical evolution of what characterizes the World Bank: lending to developing …

unique to many low-income countries: (1) borrowing from the World Bank finances a substantial fraction of public spending …, and (2) actual spending on World Bank-financed projects is typically spread out over several years following the original … approval of the project. These two features imply that fluctuations in spending on World Bank projects in a given year are in …

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

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World … Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …