How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?

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 to its client countries. It also spends...

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Main Authors:	Knack, Stephen, Parks, Bradley C., Harutyunyan, Ani, DiLorenzo, Matthew
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	DEVELOPMENT POLICY PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOREIGN AID CONDITIONALITY POLICY EVALUATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/852751588260919707/How-Does-the-World-Bank-Influence-the-Development-Policy-Priorities-of-Low-Income-and-Lower-Middle-Income-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33707

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spelling	okr-10986-337072022-09-20T00:12:07Z How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries? Knack, Stephen Parks, Bradley C. Harutyunyan, Ani DiLorenzo, Matthew DEVELOPMENT POLICY PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOREIGN AID CONDITIONALITY POLICY EVALUATION 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 to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of analytical and advisory products each year. However, insufficiently granular data on the nature, timing, and distribution of these analytical and advisory products and the policy priorities of client countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for effectuating change in the direction of government policy. With new data on the delivery of analytical and advisory products and micro-level survey data from 1,244 public sector officials in 121 developing countries, this study demonstrates that the organization’s non-lending instruments are more effective than its lending instruments at influencing the policy priorities of client countries. The World Bank's analytical and advisory products not only affect the direction of government policy, but also its design and implementation. 2020-05-07T15:06:20Z 2020-05-07T15:06:20Z 2020-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/852751588260919707/How-Does-the-World-Bank-Influence-the-Development-Policy-Priorities-of-Low-Income-and-Lower-Middle-Income-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33707 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9225 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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spellingShingle	DEVELOPMENT POLICY PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOREIGN AID CONDITIONALITY POLICY EVALUATION Knack, Stephen Parks, Bradley C. Harutyunyan, Ani DiLorenzo, Matthew How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
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description	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 to its client countries. It also spends approximately $200 million on the provision of analytical and advisory products each year. However, insufficiently granular data on the nature, timing, and distribution of these analytical and advisory products and the policy priorities of client countries has made it difficult for policymakers and scholars to understand which World Bank instruments are most useful for effectuating change in the direction of government policy. With new data on the delivery of analytical and advisory products and micro-level survey data from 1,244 public sector officials in 121 developing countries, this study demonstrates that the organization’s non-lending instruments are more effective than its lending instruments at influencing the policy priorities of client countries. The World Bank's analytical and advisory products not only affect the direction of government policy, but also its design and implementation.
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author	Knack, Stephen Parks, Bradley C. Harutyunyan, Ani DiLorenzo, Matthew
author_facet	Knack, Stephen Parks, Bradley C. Harutyunyan, Ani DiLorenzo, Matthew
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title	How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
title_short	How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
title_full	How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
title_fullStr	How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
title_full_unstemmed	How Does the World Bank Influence the Development Policy Priorities of Low-Income and Lower-Middle-Income Countries?
title_sort	how does the world bank influence the development policy priorities of low-income and lower-middle-income countries?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/852751588260919707/How-Does-the-World-Bank-Influence-the-Development-Policy-Priorities-of-Low-Income-and-Lower-Middle-Income-Countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33707
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