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 …

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 …

rest of the world. Second, this convergence process will be accompanied by a widening of income distribution in two …

The paper presents a major overhaul to the World Bank's past estimates of global poverty, incorporating new and better … data. Extreme poverty-as judged by what quot;povertyquot; means in the world's poorest countries-is found to be more … the early 1980s. For 2005 we estimate that 1.4 billion people, or one quarter of the population of the developing world …

quality, social distance, and economic indicators using data from the World Values Survey. The results obtained indicate that …

regulatory, supervisory authorities, are now available to researchers, and policymakers around the world. The data cover such …

The authors address two questions: What happens to stock market size, liquidity, volatility, and integration with world …