This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income threshold for eligibility for … the World Bank's policies and allocations across recipients as informative signals of where their own aid might be used … from other donors as well as from the World Bank, government officials in recipient countries may have an incentive to …

This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds … using the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments of macro, debt, fiscal and structural policies, and … previous studies based on earlier loans are consistent with claims by the World Bank that it has learned from its mistakes with …

for time invariant effects that are country specific and find the results to be robust to model specifications, estimation …

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

the sample and to several alternative forms of estimation. Recent studies have concluded that aid's impact on economic …

-that point the way to how the world could cut poverty in half in every major region. The fact that aid increases the benefits of … ratified in several recent case studies of low-income reformers). The authors find that the world is not operating on the … partnership in which "third world" countries and governments improve economic policy while "first world" citizens and governments …

Structural adjustment - as measured by the number of adjustment loans from the IMF, and the World Bank - reduces the …