empirical research on aid allocation by employing Poisson estimations on the determinants of the World Bank’s choice of project … locations at the district level in India. The evidence of needs-based location choices is very weak, even though World Bank … or district level. However, the World Bank prefers districts where foreign direct investors may benefit from projects …

countries with good policies. A number of donors accepted this recommendation, including the World Bank, but there is little … evidence that this has occurred. Donors, including the World Bank, seem no more likely to use policy and governance indicators …

data from the Gallup World Poll for 126 countries over the 2006–2017 period and identify causal effects with (i) an event …