Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …

Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank … alignment of trust funds with the performance-based allocations of aid by the International Development Association, the World … and education aid are poverty selective and positively correlated with the World Bank's assessment of the quality of …

other donors to be policy selective. The World Bank?s aid program for lower-income countries, the International Development …

allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of …

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 …

This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future … development efforts, including external assistance. Fifth, a new multi-polar world requires a new multi-polar approach to …