This paper provides an overview of the history of development research at the World Bank and points to new future … essential elements of the Bank's country programs and its contributions to global public goods, and this will remain the case …. Second, development thinking is in a state of flux and uncertainty; it is time to reconsider both the Bank's research …

survey reveals that the bulk of the World Bank's senior staff value the Bank's research for their work, and most come to know … policy tend to value and use research more than staff in the more traditional sectors of Bank lending-agriculture and rural … development; the latter sectors account for 45 percent of lending but only 15 percent of staff highly familiar with Bank research …

aggregate impact on inequality into a quot;verticalquot; component (between people at different pre-reform welfare levels) and a … quot;horizontalquot; component (between people at the same pre-reform welfare level). There is a large horizontal component …

inequality into a "vertical" component (between people at different pre-reform welfare levels) and a "horizontal" component … (between people at the same pre-reform welfare level). There is a large horizontal component which dominates the vertical …