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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 Helps Deliver Development Projects
Legovini, Arianna - 2017
approved by the World Bank between 2005 and 2011. The analysis finds that the delivery of projects with impact evaluation is …
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What Explains Aid Project Success in Post-Conflict Situations?
Chauvet, Lisa - 2017
information on the characteristics of World Bank projects including an independent rating of their success, supervision and … success of World Bank projects increases as peace lasts. Supervision appears to be a crucial determinant of the success of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976376
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Fungibility and the Flypaper Effect of Project Aid : Micro-Evidence for Vietnam
Mu, Ren - 2016
government responses to development project aid in the context of a specific World Bank-financed project. They estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747844
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Good Countries or Good Projects? Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank Project Performance
Denizer, Cevdet A. - 2017
The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and … World Bank project task manager quality matter significantly for the ultimate outcome of projects. They discuss the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976031
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840715
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Comparative Advantage, Demand for External Finance, and Financial Development
Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2006
The differences in the levels of financial development between advanced and developing countries are large and persistent. Theoretical and empirical literature has argued that these differences are the source of comparative advantage and could therefore shape trade patterns. This paper points...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014058708
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Good Countries or Good Projects? Comparing Macro and Micro Correlates of World Bank and Asian Development Bank Project Performance
Bulman, David Janoff - 2017
This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971850
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Cost-Effectiveness Measurement in Development : Accounting for Local Costs and Noisy Impacts
Evans, David - 2017
As evidence from rigorous impact evaluations grows in development, there have been more calls to complement impact evaluation analysis with cost analysis, so that policy makers can make investment decisions based on costs as well as impacts. This paper discusses important considerations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972759
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Evaluation of Development Programs : Randomized Controlled Trials or Regressions?
Elbers, Chris - 2017
effect on the treated (ATET). It explicitly takes into account that in the real world (with heterogeneous treatment effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974039