Documentos e informes

Concept Program Information Document (PID) - The First Solomon Islands Resilience DPO with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option - P178676 (Inglés)

Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Solomon Islands FY22 Supplemental Development Policy Operation - P178608 (Inglés)

Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Solomon Islands FY22 Supplemental Development Policy Operation - P178608 (Inglés)

The Pandemic’s Extensive Reform Agenda : How Can the Development Community Contribute? (Inglés)

The COVID-19 crisis requires policy reforms on many fronts, from debt sustainability to climate-smart recovery. This Research & Policy brief draws on theory and empirical evidence to explore the opportunities...

Dealing with Disasters : Analyzing Vanuatu’s Economy and Public Finances Through the Lens of Disaster Resilience (Inglés)

This report provides a selected analysis of Vanuatu’s economy and public finances, emphasizing the lens of disaster resilience. It draws upon the analysis and tools from two core World Bank diagnostic...

From Workfare to Welfare and Well-Being? : Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial With the Urban Poor in Eastern DRC (Inglés)

Over the past decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been host to an explosive mix of weak governance, widespread poverty, natural resource mismanagement, land disputes...

Supporting Policy Reform from the Outside (Inglés)

Sound economic and social policies are important if countries wish to prosper and achieve sustainable development. It is far from guaranteed, however, that policymakers select and implement good policies...

Is It the Journey That Matters ? A Fresh Look at the Impact of World Bank Policy Lending (Inglés)

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...

An evaluative look behind the curtain : World Bank Group staff's early experience with the shared prosperity goal (Inglés)

In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as...

Association of World Bank policy lending with social development policies and institutions (Inglés)

Do World Bank policy loans that are focused on social policy reform help improve social policies and institutions in borrower countries? To help answer this question, this paper provides new empirical...

Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent (Inglés)

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...

Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent (Inglés)

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...

World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance (Inglés)

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...

World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy (Inglés)

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...

Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs (Inglés)

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...

Aid tying and donor fragmentation (Inglés)

This study tests two opposing hypotheses about the impact of aid fragmentation on the practice of aid tying. In one, when a small number of donors dominate the aid market in a country, they may exploit...