: an urgent need to channel development finance to least-developed countries and an increasing pressure on World Bank … organization of research at the World Bank, the paper documents the shifts that have taken place in country allocations and in …

donor countries. Using a sample of World Bank trust funds, the paper examines the participation decisions of Organisation …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

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 …

countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and …

performance and its policy determinants that the World Trade Organization and its partners might monitor closely as part of the …

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

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 …