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Hirano, Yumeka - 2017

globalization (trade, foreign direct investment, remittances), policies (government expenditure, inflation management … in enabling the poor to benefit more from globalization. These discoveries underscore the need to assist developing … process under globalization. In this manner, aid can make greater strides in spurring development …

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"Small Miracles"-- Behavioral Insights to Improve Development Policy : World Development Report 2015

Demeritt, Allison - 2017

One of the most fruitful advances in modern economics has been the introduction of psychological realism into the model of "economic man." The World Development Report 2015 organizes the evidence about how humans actually think and make decisions into a coherent framework useful for designing...

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Escaping the Capability Trap : Turning"Small"Development Into"Big"Development

Campos, J. Edgardo - 2017

The international development community has been grappling with the challenges of implementing development programs and, consequently, with the design of practical approaches to attaining program objectives. This paper contributes to the emerging discussion on addressing the implementation...

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Is the New Political Economy Relevant to Developing Countries?

Lachler, Ulrich - 2017

Protectionism and industrial regulation are two topics in which the interplay of politics and economics is so strong that one wonders why the intellectual merger between the two approaches in the New Political Economy has taken so long. After describing the emergence of the state in Western...

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Microfinance and Economic Development

Cull, Robert - 2017

Microfinance is generally seen as a way to fix credit markets and unleash the productive capacities of poor people who are dependent on self-employment. The microfinance sector has grown quickly since the 1990s, paving the way for other forms of social enterprise and social investment. But...

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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries

Kusek, Peter - 2018

This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and decision making across the stages of the investment cycle: attraction, entry and establishment, operations and expansion, linkages...

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The Global Financial Crisis and Development Thinking

Rogers, F. Halsey - 2017

market-state balance, macroeconomic management, globalization, development financing, and public spending. On the one hand …

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Deterring Kickbacks and Encouraging Entry in Public Procurement Markets : Evidence from Firm Surveys in 88 Developing Countries

Knack, Stephen - 2017

There is relatively little systematic evidence on the links between procurement systems and outcomes such as competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, in 88 countries that also have...

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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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