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Predicting Project Outcomes : A Simple Methodology for Predictions Based on Project Ratings

Blanc, Marc; Esmail, Talib; Mascarell, Caroline; … - 2016

The downgrading of projects at the closing from moderately satisfactory to moderately unsatisfactory has been a persistent problem in the World Bank and a particular problem in the World Bank's East Asia and Pacific region since 2012. Through analysis of the projects that exited the East Asia...

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What Difference Does Good Monitoring and Evaluation Make to World Bank Project Performance?

Raimondo, Estelle - 2016

For more than 20 years, the development community has claimed that monitoring and evaluation helps projects achieve their objectives. This study uses data from 1,300 World Bank projects evaluated between 2008 and 2014 to investigate this suggested link between the quality of monitoring and...

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Prioritizing Infrastructure Investment : A Framework for Government Decision Making

House, Schuyler; Mandri-Perrott, Cledan; Marcelo, Darwin; … - 2016

Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing … within the current resource means of government. The Infrastructure Prioritization Framework is a multi-criteria decision … social cost-benefit analysis) are available, the Infrastructure Prioritization Framework can inform project selection by …

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Predicting World Bank Project Outcome Ratings

Geli, Patricia; Kraay, Aart; Nobakht, Hoveida - 2014

A number of recent studies have empirically documented links between characteristics of World Bank projects and their ultimate outcomes as evaluated by the World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group. This paper explores the in-sample and out-of-sample predictive performance of empirical models...

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Good Countries or Good Projects?

Bulman, David J.; Kolkma, Walter A. M.; Kraay, Aart - 2015

This paper examines the micro and macro correlates of aid project outcomes in a sample of 3,821 World Bank projects and 1,342 Asian Development Bank projects. Project outcomes vary much more within countries than between countries: country-level characteristics explain only 10–25 percent of...

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Factors Affecting Levels of International Cooperation in Carbon Abatement Projects

Dinar, Ariel; Rahman, Shaikh Mahfuzur; Larson, Donald F. - 2012

The Clean Development Mechanism, a provision of The Kyoto Protocol, allows countries that have pledged to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to gain credit toward their treaty obligations by investing in projects located in developing (host) countries. Such projects are expected to benefit...

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Economic Analysis of World Bank Education Projects and Project Outcomes

Gittinger, James P.; Moock, Peter R.; Patrinos, Harry … - 2001

Research reported in this paper tests the hypothesis that Bank education projects for which the project appraisal documents are judged "good" have a higher probability of leading to successful outcomes than projects for which the appraisals are judged "poor." The research draws on project...

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Financing the Reconstruction of Public Capital after a Natural Disaster

Adam, Christopher S.; Bevan, David L. - 2016

When a natural disaster destroys public capital, these direct losses are exacerbated by indirect losses arising from reduced output while reconstruction takes place. These indirect losses may be much larger, relative to the direct ones, in low-income countries, because they lack the finance for...

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Firm Productivity and Infrastructure Costs in East Africa

Humphrey, Richard Martin; Iimi, Atsushi; Melibaeva, Sevara - 2015

Infrastructure is an important driving force for economic growth. It reduces trade and transaction costs and stimulates …, infrastructure is an important constraint in many African countries. Using firm-level data for East Africa, the paper reexamines the … relationship between firm performance and infrastructure. It is shown that labor costs are by far the most important to stimulate …

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Regionalizing Infrastructure for Deepening Market Integration : The Case of East Africa

Benjamin, Nancy C.; Kessides, Ioannis Nicolaos - 2012

"backbone" infrastructure services are arguably even more important for the creation of an open, unified regional economic space … infrastructure regionalization could make a significant contribution to the region's economic development by promoting a more …

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