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Surrender your market!: do the G5 countries use World Bank Trade Conditionality to promote trade?

Breßlein, Martin; Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013

In this paper we investigate whether the design of World Bank conditionality, namely the extent of trade liberalization conditions, is influenced by the commercial motives of the Bank’s five major shareholders. Using a newly available dataset on World Bank conditionality we analyze the...

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International Capital Crunches : The Time-Varying Role of Informational Asymmetries

Mody, Ashoka; Taylor, Mark P. - 2021

We examine the determinants of capital flows to four developing countries during the 1990s using an explicitly disequilibrium econometric framework in which the supply and demand for capital are not necessarily equal and the actual amount of the flow is determined by the 'short side' of the...

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Whither multilateral development finance?

Wihtol, Robert - 2014

Multilateral development finance is at a critical juncture. In the past 70 years, it has developed through four distinct stages. The Bretton Woods conference established the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in 1944 to finance post-war reconstruction and stabilize the global...

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Merry Sisterhood or Guarded Watchfulness? Cooperation between the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank

Fabricius, Michael - 2007

International Monetary Fund (IMF) have aimed to consistently speak with one voice vis-agrave;-vis their member governments. However …

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The Role of IMF Support in Crisis Prevention

Ramakrishnan, Uma - 2006

This paper examines the role of IMF-supported programs in crisis prevention; specifically, whether, conditional on an … episode of intense market pressures, IMF financial support helps prevent a capital account crisis from developing and, if so …, through what channels. In doing so, the paper distinguishes between the seal of approval inherent in IMF support and its …

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Do Accounting and Audit Quality Affect World Bank Lending?

Lamoreaux, Phillip T. - 2019

We investigate the role of accounting and audit quality in the allocation of international development aid loans provided by the World Bank. This aid is crucial to improve governance functions, infrastructure, and capital markets, and the accounting and audit environments in a country can...

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Whither Multilateral Development Finance?

Wihtol, Robert - 2014

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Do Accounting and Audit Quality Affect World Bank Lending?

Lamoreaux, Phillip T. - 2014

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Too many cooks in the kitchen? : the division of financing in World Bank projects and project performance

Winters, Matthew S. - 2019

The total funding envelope for World Bank projects is often divided among various state and non-state actors, each of which can have competing ideas about or interests in the project. How does the division of financing relate to overall project effectiveness? I argue that too many funding...

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Human Rights Criticism of the World Bank's Private Sector Development and Privatization Projects

Kinley, David; Davis, Tom - 2015

The World Bank is no stranger to criticism of its projects, especially in respect of its privatization and private sector development projects. Critics point to the environmental, social and cultural damage that certain projects have caused, which for some appears not just to be a product of the...

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