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How does the World Bank influence the development policy priorities of low-income and lower-middle income countries?

Knack, Stephen F.; Parks, Bradley; Harutyunyan, Ani; … - 2020

micro-level survey data from 1,244 public sector officials in 121 developing countries, this study demonstrates that the …

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Toward successful development policies : insights from research in development economics

Artuc, Erhan; Cull, Robert J.; Dasgupta, Susmita; Jaef, … - 2020

What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Research Group. This paper assembles a set of 13...

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Understanding the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

Vorisek, Dana; Yu, Shu - 2020

This paper presents a review of studies that estimate the cost of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Although the Sustainable Development Goals provide useful benchmarks for fiscal authorities and donors, typical cross-country costing exercises can be misleading, for a variety of...

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Place-based policies for development

Duranton, Gilles; Venables, Anthony - 2018

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....

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Shared prosperity : concepts, data, and some policy examples

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Galasso, Emanuela; Negre, Mario - 2018

household survey data to assess recent progress in this indicator globally. The analysis finds that during 2008-13, mean incomes …

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Information and Communications for Development 2018 : Data-Driven Development

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Fiscal Policies for Development and Climate Action

Pigato, Miria A. - 2018

This report provides actionable advice on how to design and implement fiscal policies for both development and climate action. Building on more than two decades of research in development and environmental economics, it argues that well-designed environmental tax reforms are especially valuable...

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The Analysis of Household Surveys (Reissue Edition with a New Preface) : A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy

Deaton, Angus - 2019

anyone with a serious interest in using household survey data to shed light on policy issues.The book reviews the analysis of … household survey data, including the construction of household surveys, the econometric tools useful for such analysis, and a … range of problems in development policy for which this survey analysis can be applied.Chapter 1 describes the features of …

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Sulawesi Development Diagnostic : Achieving Shared Prosperity

World Bank - 2015

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Revisiting the Relevance of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment on Economic Growth

Gonzalez, Christian Yves - 2018

We revisit the relevance of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA)against growth performance, with attention to possible biases arising from qualitative andquantitative changes in the CPIA methodology. The CPIA, introduced in the late 1970s, had aseries of extensive...

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