This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during the period 1998-2015. A new theoretical framework distinguishes among three effects that have been conflated hitherto: (a) marginal impacts of additional policy actions within...

Looking for democracy in all the wrong places -- The big picture -- The components of salience -- The regional picture -- Myanmar and donor switching -- Egypt and Fiji -- No golden age, no silver bullet.