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This paper compiles project-level data from the World Bank's lending history to describe patterns and the composition of its portfolio. The paper focuses particularly on the effect of countries' transition from International Development Association to International Bank for Reconstruction and...
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Ongoing empirical research on the drivers of project-aid effectiveness relies on World Bank evaluation ratings across … World Bank evaluation ratings are measuring precisely. Second, only project management variables, which are sector …. Moreover, we are able to analyze the impact of project design in addition to project management. We find that evaluation …
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'Japan's Foreign Aid Policy in Africa' evaluates TICAD's intellectual contribution to and its development practices regarding Africa over the past 20 years. A central conclusion is that, while TICAD bureaucrats lacked agency to support Japanese companies in Africa, the model of emerging powers...
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Brazil entered the 1990s suffering the consequences of a lost decade of high inflation and slow growth. Between 1980 and 1990, per capita income declined in real terms, and the share of the population in extreme poverty rose from 16.5 to 19 percent -and from 36 to 42 percent in the Northeast....
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This impact evaluation reviews the investment climate (IC) reform programs implemented by the World Bank Group (WBG) in …. The purpose of the evaluation is to update, expand, and deepen the initial analysis within the framework of the earlier … the WBG. The evaluation covers a total of 25 IC-related projects implemented by the WBG in the five countries since the …
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