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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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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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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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Development practitioners are coming to a consensus that participation by the intended beneficiaries improves project performance. But is there convincing evidence that this is true? Skeptics have three objections: 1) quot;Participation is not objective -- project rankings are subjective; 2) this...
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The authors use data from more than 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2009 to investigate macro and micro correlates of project outcomes. They find that country-level "macro" measures of the quality of policies and institutions are very strongly correlated with project...
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This paper investigates the effectiveness of post-conflict aid at the project level and aims to identify post-conflict situations as a window of opportunity for project success. The Independent Evaluation Group dataset provides extensive information on the characteristics of World Bank projects...
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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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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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for peace and reconstruction. Hence, the rehabilitation of damaged transport infrastructure has emerged as an overarching … conflict on welfare and on the economic impact of transport infrastructure. The theoretical model explores how transport … infrastructure affects conflict incidence and welfare when selection into rebel groups is endogenous. The implications of the model …
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Academics and policy makers have long considered an adequate supply of infrastructure services to be essential for … economic development. This paper reviews recent theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of infrastructure … the drivers of income growth, the degree to which infrastructure represents a public or a private good, and the extent of …
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