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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa

Alpino, Matteo - 2020

This article documents a positive and sizable correlation between the location of historical Christian missions and the allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of geographical and historical control variables that...

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Compensation, Diversity and Inclusion at the World Bank Group

Das, Jishnu - 2017

This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique panel of all employees over this period. The paper develops and implements a dynamic simulation approach that models existing gaps as arising from differences in job composition...

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On the Delegation of Aid Implementation to Multilateral Agencies

Annen, Kurt - 2017

Some multilateral agencies implement aid projects in a broad range of sectors, with aid disbursements showing a strong overlap with those of bilateral donors. The question then arises of why do bilateral donors delegate sizable shares of their aid to non-specialized agencies for implementation?...

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Which Donors, Which Funds? The Choice of Multilateral Funds by Bilateral Donors at the World Bank

Reinsberg, Bernhard - 2017

The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature so far. Using a simple illustrative model, this paper examines the choice by sovereign donors among various trust fund options. The authors contend that the choice among...

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Good Countries or Good Projects? Comparing Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank Project Performance

Bulman, David Janoff - 2017

This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10?25 percent of...

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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-of-sample predictive performance of empirical models...

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Informal Economy and the World Bank

Benjamin, Nancy - 2017

Many countries have expressed an interest in the size, performance and motivation of the informal sector, especially where the informal sector provides the livelihood and employment for a critical segment of the population. This essay reviews recent literature, methodologies, and relevant Bank...

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Tourism Sector in Panama : Regional Economic Impacts and the Potential to Benefit the Poor

Klytchnikova, Irina - 2017

a "dual economy," Panama shares with other Latin American countries a fast growing, modern urban sector side by side … with impoverished rural and peri-urban populations. Tourism has been growing in Panama and contributes at least 6 percent … growth and poverty at the regional (province) level in Panama using a Social Accounting Matrix model. As revealed by this …

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Regulating Water and Sanitation Network Services Accounting for Institutional and Informational Constraints

Camos Daurella, Daniel - 2017

The main purpose of this paper is to argue that the optimal design of regulation of water and sanitation monopolies should be the outcome of a detailed diagnostic of the institutional constraints impacting the ability of the operator -- whether public or private -- to deliver the services....

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Do Private Water Utility Operators Care About Regulatory Agencies in Developing Countries?

Bertomeu Sanchez, Salvador - 2017

This paper shows that the creation of an independent regulatory agency is often not a necessary or sufficient condition to help attract private participation in the operation and financing of the water and sanitation sector in developing countries. However, the odds of an impact are...

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