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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 approximately $200 million on the provision of...
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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending
Moll, Peter G. - 2017
This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 and 2012. The paper uses a data set constructed of individual loan characteristics and ex-post loan ratings produced by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing...
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Mdgs that Nudge : The Millennium Development Goals, Popular Mobilization, and the Post-2015 Development Framework
Gauri, Varun - 2017
The Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015, were a global agreement to promote human development and reduce poverty. But they did not create a legalized institutional regime, in which precise obligations would be delegated to specific actors, nor were they, in many respects,...
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The World Bank and Governance : The Bank's Efforts to Help Developing Countries Build State Capacity
de Janvry, Alain - 2017
This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible results and advocating specific development policies. Section 1 provides some conceptual underpinnings for the view that an effective state is essential for development. It asks...
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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent
Öhler, Hannes - 2017
quarter of the countries, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, exhibit a negative correlation. The presence of the bottom 40 is … average. This is entirely driven by Sub-Saharan Africa, because the correlation is insignificant in the rest of the world …
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Aid is Good for the Poor
Hirano, Yumeka - 2017
Aid is good for the poor. This paper uses detailed aid data spanning 60 developing countries over the past two decades to show that social aid significantly and directly benefits the poorest in society, while economic aid increases the income of the poor through growth. This new and unequivocal...
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The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
Ceriani, Lidia - 2017
The paper develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the...
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Social Assistance and Poverty Reduction in Moldova, 2001-2004 : An Impact Evaluation
Verme, Paolo - 2008
This paper assesses the impact of social assistance benefits on household welfare in Moldova. Ignoring standard issues of impact evaluations such as selection bias, behavioral responses, unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity, an incidence analysis suggests that increased spending on social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216917
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Women Left Behind? Poverty and Headship in Africa
Milazzo, Annamaria - 2017
This paper is motivated by two stylized facts about poverty in Africa: female-headed households tend to be poorer, and … fared? And what role have they played in Africa's impressive recent aggregate growth and poverty reduction? Using data … product has dampened rising female headship. However, other subtle transformations occurring across Africa?changes in marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971528
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How Significant is Africa's Demographic Dividend for its Future Growth and Poverty Reduction?
Ahmed, S. Amer - 2017
Africa will be undergoing substantial demographic changes in the coming decades with the rising working age share of … catch up to other developing countries. If the skill share of Africa's labor supply doubles because of improvements in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972402