Documents et rapports
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How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle Income Countries ? (anglais)
This study investigates the World Bank's use of lending and non-lending instruments to affect the policy priorities of developing countries. In a typical year, the World Bank lends more than $30 billion...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9225 Date du document: 30 avril 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Parks,Bradley Christopher,Harutyunyan,Ani,DiLorenzo,Matthew
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Moving Up the Ladder : An Analysis of IDA Graduation Policy (anglais)
This paper analyzes the factors that affect countries' graduation from International Development Association (IDA) assistance and develops a statistical model of graduation. IDA provides concessional financing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9208 Date du document: 8 avril 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Dobronogov,Anton,Knack,Stephen,Wilson,James Michael
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Better Policies from Policy-Selective Aid ? (anglais)
This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8889 Date du document: 17 juin 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Annen,Kurt,Knack,Stephen
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Indicators of citizen-centric public service delivery (anglais)
This report and the instruments it proposes aim at assisting public administrators in ensuring that their service delivery mechanisms respond to the needs and expectations of citizens. This document summarizes...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 126399 Date du document: 1 mai 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pfeil,Helene,Agarwal,Sanjay,Bernstein,David S.,Recanatini,Francesca,Knack,Stephen,Ladegaard,Peter Farup
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Europe and Central Asia - Development of EU governance indicators : indicators of citizen-centric public service delivery – final report : Citizen-Centric Governance Indicators Final Report (anglais)
The report is structured into five parts. Part one presents the conceptual framework that forms the backdrop for developing citizen-centric service delivery indicators and summarizes what citizen-centric...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: AUS0000222 Date du document: 16 mars 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pfeil, Hélène,Agarwal,Sanjay,Recanatini,Francesca,Knack,Stephen,Ladegaard,Peter Farup,Bernstein,David S.
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Taxation without representation ? experimental evidence from Ghana and Uganda on citizen action toward taxes, oil, and aid (anglais)
Seminal arguments in political economy hold that citizens will more readily demand accountability from governments for taxes than for non-tax revenue from oil or aid. Two identical experiments on large...
Numéro du rapport: WPS8137 Date du document: 5 juillet 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: de la Cuesta,Brandon,Milner,Helen V.,Nielson,Daniel Lafayette,Knack,Stephen
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Deterring kickbacks and encouraging entry in public procurement markets : evidence from firm surveys in 88 developing countries (anglais)
There is relatively little systematic evidence on the links between procurement systems and outcomes such as competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8078 Date du document: 30 mai 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Biletska,Nataliya,Kacker,Kanishka
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Poverty and policy selectivity of World Bank trust funds (anglais)
Over the past decade, donors of foreign aid quadrupled their annual contributions to trust funds at the World Bank. This earmarking of contributions to donors' preferred recipient countries and issues...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7731 Date du document: 28 juin 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Eichenauer,Vera,Knack,Stephen
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On the delegation of aid implementation to multilateral agencies (anglais)
Some multilateral agencies implement aid projects in a broad range of sectors, with aid disbursements showing a strong overlap with those of bilateral donors. The question then arises of why do bilateral...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7455 Date du document: 22 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Annen,Kurt,Knack,Stephen
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Which donors, which funds ? the choice of multilateral funds by bilateral donors at the World Bank (anglais)
The rapid growth of trust funds at multilateral development organizations has been widely neglected in the academic literature so far. Using a simple illustrative model, this paper examines the choice...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7441 Date du document: 14 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Reinsberg,Bernhard Wilfried,Michaelowa,Katharina,Knack,Stephen
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Unbundling institutions for external finance : worldwide firm-level evidence (anglais)
The empirical literature on institutions and development has been challenged on grounds of reverse causality, measurement error in institutional indicators, and heterogeneity. This paper uses firm-level...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7287 Date du document: 2 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Xu,Lixin
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World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance (anglais)
This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending for public sector governance on the quality of public sector management and institutions. The World Bank’s Country Policy and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7267 Date du document: 15 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Smets,Lodewijk,Knack,Stephen
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Interactions among donors' aid allocations : evidence from an exogenous World Bank income threshold (anglais)
This study investigates the effects of the World Bank's exogenously-determined income threshold for eligibility for concessionary International Development Association (IDA) loans on the allocations of...
Numéro du rapport: WPS7039 Date du document: 1 septembre 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Xu, Lixin Colin,Zou,Ben
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World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy (anglais)
This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds that the quality of policy increases, but at a diminishing rate, with the cumulative...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6924 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Smets,Lodewijk
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The effect of aid on growth : evidence from a quasi-experiment (anglais)
The literature on aid and growth has not found a convincing instrumental variable to identify the causal effects of aid. This paper exploits an instrumental variable based on the fact that since 1987...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6865 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Galiani,Sebastian Franco,Knack,Stephen,Xu,Lixin,Zou,Ben
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Russian Federation - National and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption : policy note : Russian Federation - National and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption (russe)
Using data from business environment and enterprise performance survey (BEEPS) and other enterprise surveys, studies have shown that firm entry, growth and productivity are impeded by corruption and overly...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 75569 Date du document: 5 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kisunko,Gregory,Knack,Stephen,Islam,Roumeen, Ponamariov, Branco
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It's only words : validating the CPIA governance assessments (anglais)
This study analyzes the validity of the World Bank's Country Policy and Institutional Assessments governance ratings, an important factor in allocating the Bank's concessionary International Development...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6526 Date du document: 1 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen
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Building or bypassing recipient country systems : are donors defying the Paris declaration ? (anglais)
The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6423 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen
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Russian Federation - National and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption : policy note : Russian Federation - National and regional trends in regulatory burden and corruption (anglais)
Using data from business environment and enterprise performance survey (BEEPS) and other enterprise surveys, studies have shown that firm entry, growth and productivity are impeded by corruption and overly...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 75569 Date du document: 24 février 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kisunko,Gregory,Knack,Stephen,Islam,Roumeen, Ponamariov, Branco
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Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs (anglais)
This study investigates how government ideology matters for the success of World Bank economic policy loans, which typically support market-liberalizing reforms. A simple model predicts that World Bank...
Numéro du rapport: WPS6130 Date du document: 1 juillet 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Knack,Stephen,Molenaers, Nadia,Smets,Lodewijk