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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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Why Follow the Leader? Collective Action, Credible Commitment and Conflict
Keefer, Philip - 2017
Most analyses of conflict assume that conflicting groups act in a unitary fashion. This assumption is often violated: to reduce their risk of replacement, group leaders prevent both group members and soldiers from acting collectively, making it difficult for leaders to make credible commitments...
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Predicting Project Outcomes : A Simple Methodology for Predictions Based on Project Ratings
Blanc, Marc - 2017
persistent problem in the World Bank and a particular problem in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific region since 2012 …
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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making
Marcelo, Darwin - 2017
Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969287
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972305
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Economic Valuation of Development Projects : A Case Study of a Non-Motorized Transport Project in India
Wang, Hua - 2017
One of the major difficulties in doing cost-benefit analysis of a development project is to estimate the total economic value of project benefits, which are usually multi-dimensional and include goods and services that are not traded in the market. Challenges also arise in aggregating the values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976372
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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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Does Participation Improve Project Performance : Establishing Causality with Subjective Data
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three objections: 1) quot;Participation is not objective -- project rankings are subjective; 2) this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746916
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068213
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Gross Capital Flows, Common Factors, and the Global Financial Cycle
Barrot, Luis-Diego - 2018
(the VIX, the U.S. real interest rate and real exchange rate, U.S. GDP growth, and world commodity prices) that explain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926785