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Blog Post
January 16, 2018
On Friday, the World Bank’s chief economist, Paul Romer, told the Wall Street Journal that the Bank unfairly influenced its own competitiveness rankings. He highlighted the case of Chile which suffered lower rankings on the Doing Business index during the Bachelet administration...
Blog Post
October 04, 2016
Beginning this Friday, the Annual Meetings of the IMF and World Bank will take place against the backdrop of a still-sputtering global economy, a growing number of displaced people, and a warming climate. In the face of these headwinds, a major priority for the multilaterals has to be to energi...
WORKING PAPERS
July 21, 2016
The World Bank’s new Program for Results (PforR) instrument is only the third financing instrument approved since 1944. The PforR portfolio is expanding rapidly and represents an appreciable part of “results-based” development finance. This paper analyzes the first 3...