World Bank
World Bank
... the World Bank, Big Data in Action for Development presents a matrix of different ways in which big data could be used in transformational ways toward the development agenda: using mobile data ...the ...
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The World Bank Has an Accountability Problem
... In response to previous mistakes, the World Bank Group has developed complaint mechanisms for conducting independent investigations. But the EarthRights lawsuit details how the IFC’s internal watchdog ...
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Conditionality in World Bank crisis-lending to Ghana
... the World Bank loan calls for enhanced fiscal regimes for the extractive industries in the oil sector, in February 2009, the board of directors of the World Bank’s International Finance Corportation ...
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E3 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
... the Bank (or more precisely the IBRD) to raise most of its loan money through the sale of bonds to private ...(the World Bank Group’s public-sector lending facility) is raised from the rich countries ...
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The Development and Implementation of IMF and World Bank Conditionality
... time, Bank staff increasingly became aware that its projects, even if individually successful, could not achieve growth if the macroeconomic environment was deeply ...between Bank and borrowing countries ...
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US Politics and World Bank IDA-Lending
... As we only have the CPR for 2001 we use averages over 1995-1999 for the UN voting behaviour, political freedom and the military expenditures. 19 Even though the CPR is expected to be very per- sistent over time (being ...
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World bank lending and the quality of economic policy
... whether World Bank country teams achieve their objective in designing DPLs of improving the quality of development ...of World Bank lending on the policies developing countries select, as ...
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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND and WORLD BANK. Strengthening IMF-World Bank Collaboration on Country Programs and Conditionality
... the World Bank, with the emphasis reflecting the particular priorities of the ...the Bank, they have taken place in the context of discussions about strategic selectivity, the country business model, ...
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The role of the World Bank in sustainable development
... the World Bank is not just the only source of long-term aid and direct investments, but plays a role of technical advisor, which includes technical support of various projects and implementation of ...The ...
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Are “New” Donors Challenging World Bank Conditionality?
... on World Bank conditionality are scarce because data did not become fully available until ...200 World Bank structural adjustment programs and observes that the disbursement of loans is not ...
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INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: An Update on World Bank Group Activities. A Public Information Note by World Bank Staff
... the World Bank’s technical assistance efforts based on the approaches set out in those ...the World Bank’s Executive Board, a set of sample case studies of countries that have developed sound debt ...
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Which World Bank Reports Are Widely Read?
... iii) Performance assessment reviews are also used to evaluate policy reports. Performance assessment reviews (PAR) are part of the IEG initiative to assess the impact of Bank ESW and TA. This initiative is meant ...
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Sustainability of World Bank funded projects in Kenya.
... From table 4.3, cumulatively 85.3 percent of the respondents indicated that they clearly understood their obligations on sustainability, while 13.7 percent were either neutral or did not understand their obligation on ...
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Corporate Influence in World Bank Lending
... the World Bank ’ s portfolio is likely to seem insig- nificant compared to the possibility of losing a vote on an appropriations bill, so the Treasury routinely complies with a request from a congressional ...
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The World Bank Legal Review
... (World Bank Development Research Group 2008); Joyce Meng, Expanding Global Access: A Comparative Analysis of Pharmaceutical Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative (unpub- lished paper 2007); and Greg ...
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India and world bank relations: an evaluation of India’s role in the evolution of the world bank
... the World Bank have decided to establish an institution that would lend, without government guarantee and provide equity investments to the private ...(World Bank, ...
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World Bank lending and financial sector development
... the World Bank is driven by a specific subset of ...of World Bank assistance are not driven by cultural factors ...the World Bank and relatively flourishing financial ...
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World Bank and Keynesian Economics
... All those progresses required the gradual appeal to the new economic and development theory throughout the world by means of the World Bank. Neoliberalism emerged as new economic and development ...
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An empirical assessment of informal influence in the World Bank
... We can think of the World Bank disbursement decision as happening in two steps. First, World Bank staff decide whether a country is eligible for disbursements. Second, if the country is ...
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An Introduction to World Bank
... Together with four affiliated agencies created between 1957 and 1988, the IBRD is part of the World Bank Group. The Group's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. It is an international organization owned by ...
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