This paper describes the methodology for a new World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI). The HCI combines indicators of …

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 …

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 …

Bridging the external financing gap has been an important factor in borrowing cgovernment's demand for World Bank loans …

This paper examines salary gaps by gender and nationality at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 using a unique … three main findings. First, 76 percent of the $27,400 salary gap across the average male and female staff at the World Bank … Group can be attributed to composition effects, whereby men entered the World Bank Group at higher paid positions …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy loans on the ease of doing business. It finds that … World Bank is more relevant than the amount of resources invested in the project …