... Commons Attribution License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Summary Using a historical case study of the World Bank and World Health Organization (WHO)’s...

...Diana Goldemberg; Luke Jordan; Thomas Kenyon E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 31 01 2024 17 01 2025 12 02 2025 © 2025 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. Published by Oxford University Press...

...Nicole Gorton; Elena Ianchovichina E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] 03 04 2024 28 08 2024 11 12 2024 © 2025 International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank. Published by Oxford University Press 2025 This article is published...

... [email protected]. Abstract This paper explores the evidence culture in one of the key global knowledge institutions—the World Bank. Framing itself as a “Knowledge Ban,” the World Bank is a leading organization in data and evidence provision around poverty and inequalities, and as such, it shapes...

... that are functionals of domain-level income distributions is also addressed, and a nonparametric bootstrap procedure is used to estimate mean squared errors and confidence intervals. The proposed methodology is compared with the well-known World Bank poverty mapping methodology for this situation, using model-based...

...Scott Morris The World Bank was created in 1944 to alleviate external financing constraints for the world’s capital-poor governments, providing US dollar loans where access to commercial lenders was limited or non-existent. As a multilateral institution, the bank benefitted from capital...

... develops a conceptual framework to analyse evolving discourses relating to the design of social protection measures adopted by the World Bank (WB) and International Labour Organization (ILO). The analysis distinguishes between minimalist ‘safety-net and market-centred’ approaches to social protection...

...Louise Ashton; Jed Friedman; Diana Goldemberg; Mustafa Zakir Hussain; Thomas Kenyon; Akib Khan; Mo Zhou Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 23 01 2023 development aid effectiveness development project success project design project implementation world bank operations...

... at the WHO. Health Systems Research health services research global health World Health Organization World Bank During the 1960s, wealthy nations began developing planning approaches to their increasingly expensive healthcare systems. In English-speaking countries, such approaches were called Health...

... Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) ABSTRACT The World Bank is often portrayed by human rights scholars as a ‘legal black hole’ where the workings of international law have been suspended...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract The initial key international climate policy and carbon market hub was the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Over time several international organizations and networks have been added to the “international carbon market web,” such as several World Bank (WB...

... in the spring of 1992, World Bank staff and others debated many of the issues that would feature prominently the next year in Investing in Health. They recognised that cost-effectiveness, not simply cost, had an ethical component leading some participants to ask: ‘Wasn’t the cost-effectiveness approach...

... growing multipolarity? The article tackles this question by examining recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank practice. It argues that, resistant though the Bretton Woods twins are to comprehensive reform, they nonetheless employ mechanisms to cope with the new realities on the ground...

... ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Summary The method of Elbers, Lanjouw and Lanjouw (ELL) is the small area estimation method developed by the World Bank for poverty mapping and is widely used in developing countries. However, it has...

... level. We hypothesize the non-robust results regarding the effects of aid on development in the previous literature to arise due to the effects of aid being insufficiently large to measurably affect aggregate outcomes. Using geo-coded data for World Bank aid to a maximum of 2,221 first-level...

... through development.” ¹ Arguably, international bodies contributed to creating the problem, and they certainly played a key role in how it was perceived. After 1945, international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the UNDP, and the WHO adopted the development...

... System of Mexico City UNDP United Nations Development Programme WB World Bank WWC World Water Council Private participation in the management of water, sanitation and other infrastructure has been firmly promoted over the past three decades and has emerged as a dominant form of practice...

...Ilias Bantekas © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press. Available online at www.bybil.oxfordjournals.org 2011 intergovernmental organisations World Bank development State responsibility memoranda of understanding pledges Intergovernmental trusts or trust funds have been...

...Howard Stein In 1980, the World Bank began to lend money contingent on undertaking a series of policy adjustments focusing on liberalization, stabilization and the privatization of state assets. The main rationale of the new policy regime explicitly focused on the growth gains from improvements...

...Howard Stein This article will investigate the trends of bank ownership, the evolution of World Bank thinking on the issue and assess a number of the propositions put forward by the World Bank by both critically assessing their empirical work and by providing alternative data. Two case studies...