developing countries in the world economy and the emerging multi-polar growth setting. It evaluates the stability of the current …, the paper evaluates the stability of the emerging system, as well as the current proposals for reform of the international …

An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …

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

Bridging the external financing gap has been an important factor in borrowing cgovernment's demand for World Bank loans …

This paper examines historically the World Bank's twin features: lending to developing economies to achieve tangible … large aid flows. Section 2 sketches the historical evolution of what characterizes the World Bank: lending to developing …

unique to many low-income countries: (1) borrowing from the World Bank finances a substantial fraction of public spending …, and (2) actual spending on World Bank-financed projects is typically spread out over several years following the original … approval of the project. These two features imply that fluctuations in spending on World Bank projects in a given year are in …

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 …

an international organization, the World Bank. After randomly assigning treatment to 248 survey participants, the study … World Bank surveyors to turn to sample surveys more often, reducing survey overload in the institution …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China …