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 …

normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace … democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful …

. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that …

Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru, Turkey and Venezuela. For these countries we are able to match data from two newly …

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 …

always been guided by two basic principles: representative democracy, and a proper division of power between national and … drawn to centralized democracy, as national elites may prefer to centralize power around themselves. America's successful …

This paper assesses the link between democracy and inequality. Inequality is measured at the cohort level with pseudo …-panel data built from nine Latin American countries' household surveys (1995-2009, biannual). Democracy is measured as a stock …-run historical patterns in the degree of democracy relate to income inequality. However, this relationship is non …