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Do Capital Inflows Boost Growth in Developing Countries? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Calderón, César - 2017

This paper examines whether domestic output growth helps attract capital inflows and, in turn, capital inflows help boost output growth in a set of 38 Sub-Saharan African countries. Using a two-step approach to address reverse causality and omitted variable issues, the paper finds that output...

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Correlates of Success in World Bank Development Policy Lending

Moll, Peter G. - 2017

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 … Policy" department of the World Bank, also increase the chance of success. Conversely, a weaker set of supported reforms in …

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The Effect of Aid on Growth : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment

Galiani, Sebastian - 2017

The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987, eligibility for aid from the International Development Association (IDA) has been based partly...

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To Give or to Forgive? Aid Versus Debt Relief

Cordella, Tito - 2017

Is generalized debt relief an effective development strategy, or should assistance be tailored to countries' characteristics? To answer this question, the authors build a simple model in which recipient governments reveal their creditworthiness if donors offer them to choose between aid and debt...

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Foreign Aid and Business Bottlenecks : A Study of Aid Effectiveness

Ferro, Esteban - 2017

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

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What is Effective Aid? How Would Donors Allocate it?

Kenny, Charles - 2016

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

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Developing Economies and International Investors : Do Investment Promotion Agencies Bring Them Together?

Harding, Torfinn - 2016

Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment. Despite the importance of this question for public policy choices, little is known about the effectiveness of investment promotion efforts. This study uses...

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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way

Cadot, Olivier - 2017

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...

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Using Mixed Methods in Monitoring and Evaluation : Experiences from International Development

Bamberger, Michael - 2017

This paper provides an overview of the various ways in which mixing qualitative and quantitative methods could add value to monitoring and evaluating development projects. In particular it examines how qualitative methods could address some of the limitations of randomized trials and other...

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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...

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