accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the regions of Russia. We estimate that the average gain in welfare as a …

This report investigates the environmental impacts of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization. A 10-region … contains foreign direct investment, imperfectly competitive sectors, and endogenous productivity effects triggered by World … 30 sectors in each of the 10 regions. The decomposition analysis shows that despite the fact that World Trade …

: private social networks and membership in the Communist Party. Although party affiliation is linked to higher consumption in …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China …

where UNSC membership can most reliably be regarded as exogenous. Two conclusions arise from this. First, short …

an international organization, the World Bank. After randomly assigning treatment to 248 survey participants, the study … World Bank surveyors to turn to sample surveys more often, reducing survey overload in the institution …

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 …

policies of the current government could be improved (Matheson et al. 2007). This paper examines an attempt to de … government officials and experts as well as legal acts, available documents, articles, and personal interviews. The paper …

so requires information on the nature and magnitude of market failures on the one hand, and government's capacity to …