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 …

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

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

This paper examines the correlates of success of development policy lending operations of the World Bank between 2004 … the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. Departing from the related literature, the paper focuses mostly on … examining the impact of loan characteristics, reform program design features, and task team leader skills, among other variables …

This paper proposes a new framework to analyze aid effectiveness. Using World Bank firm survey data and OECD aid flow …

development. This paper looks at what the cross-country aid effectiveness literature and World Bank Operations Evaluation …