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Mobilization Effects of Multilateral Development Banks
Broccolini, Chiara - 2020
This study uses loan-level data on syndicated lending to a large sample of developing countries between 1993 and 2017 to estimate the mobilization effects of multilateral development banks (MDBs), that is, their ability to crowd-in capital from private creditors. Controlling for a large set of...
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The Role of Historical Christian Missions in the Location of World Bank Aid in Africa
Alpino, Matteo - 2020
allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set 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 … project. Such models perform better than self-assessments of project performance provided by World Bank staff during the …
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
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Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation : Experiences from International Development
Bamberger, Michael - 2017
This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976624
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Geo-Spatial Modeling of Access to Water and Sanitation in Nigeria
Andres, Luis Alberto - 2018
The paper presents the development and implementation of a geo-spatial model for mapping populations' access to specified types of water and sanitation services in Nigeria. The analysis uses geo-located, population-representative data from the National Water and Sanitation Survey 2015, along...
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Issues in Adjustment Lending
Thomas, Vinod - 2017
Reaping the full benefit of adjustment packages depends on a government's commitment to reform as well as a variety of complementary factors, many of which have not been duly considered because of the lack of time, resources, and skills. It is becoming increasingly clear that if these packages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967944
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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 … countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for …
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Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts
Andersen, Jørgen Juel - 2020
Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...
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Taxation Without Representation? Experimental Evidence from Ghana and Uganda on Citizen Action Toward Taxes, Oil, and Aid
de la Cuesta, Brandon - 2017
Seminal arguments in political economy hold that citizens will more readily demand accountability from governments for taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large, representative subject pools in Ghana and Uganda probe the effects of different revenue types...
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