World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview

The World Bank is a leading intellectual institution on development. It is a world leader in analytical studies in areas including poverty measurement, delivery of social services, impact evaluation, measurement of development outcomes, internatio...

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Main Author:	Dethier, Jean-Jacques
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BASIC RESEARCH CAPITAL FLOWS CHRONOLOGY CITIES CLIENT COUNTRIES COLLABORATION COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CONSOLIDATION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DEBT DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC STABILITY ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EVALUATIVE STUDIES EX POST EVALUATION EXCHANGE RATES EXPERIMENTS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL POLICIES FLEXIBILITY FORECASTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS INTEREST RATES LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LICENSING LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMICS MANDATES MIGRATION MODELING POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES QUASIEXPERIMENTAL METHODS REORGANIZATION RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH FUNDS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH PRIORITIES RESEARCH PROGRAMS RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORTS RESEARCH SERVICES RESEARCH THEMES RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RETURN ON EQUITY SAVINGS SCIENTISTS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SURVEY DATA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING TRADE FLOWS TRUST FUNDS URBANIZATION VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM
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spelling	okr-10986-41942021-04-23T14:02:16Z World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview Dethier, Jean-Jacques ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BASIC RESEARCH CAPITAL FLOWS CHRONOLOGY CITIES CLIENT COUNTRIES COLLABORATION COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CONSOLIDATION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DEBT DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC STABILITY ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EVALUATIVE STUDIES EX POST EVALUATION EXCHANGE RATES EXPERIMENTS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL POLICIES FLEXIBILITY FORECASTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS INTEREST RATES LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LICENSING LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMICS MANDATES MIGRATION MODELING POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES QUASIEXPERIMENTAL METHODS REORGANIZATION RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH FUNDS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH PRIORITIES RESEARCH PROGRAMS RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORTS RESEARCH SERVICES RESEARCH THEMES RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RETURN ON EQUITY SAVINGS SCIENTISTS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SURVEY DATA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING TRADE FLOWS TRUST FUNDS URBANIZATION VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM The World Bank is a leading intellectual institution on development. It is a world leader in analytical studies in areas including poverty measurement, delivery of social services, impact evaluation, measurement of development outcomes, international trade and migration. It is also a leader in development data, including the Living Standard Measurement Surveys; the enterprise surveys, and the International Price Comparison Project. World Bank research is resolutely empirical and policy oriented. By both learning from past policies and operations and thinking critically about future policies, research plays a critical role in the formulation of policy advice to developing countries. This paper reviews the intellectual and institutional forces that have shaped research at the World Bank since the latter started lending to developing countries in the early 1950s. It provides an overview of the shifts in development economics that have influenced Bank research and briefly surveys the changes in research organization, structure and approach. The first section, after a short introduction, examines the shifts in positive and normative views about development during the past half century that have influenced Bank thinking. The Bank itself has been an active participant in the rise and fall of long-lived development dogmas about the nature of development; the most appropriate policies and actions for achieving it; and the respective roles of government and markets. The second section examines how the World Bank has adapted its organization to keep abreast of emerging issues and produce relevant policy research of good quality. On the one hand, the Bank has experienced several reorganizations that have affected the research unit(s) as well as its relationship with operational units. On the other hand, the Bank s research units themselves have been reorganized at several junctures, leading to new priorities and new means of achieving them. 2012-03-19T19:11:36Z 2012-03-19T19:11:36Z 2009-07-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090717171036 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4194 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5000 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper The World Region The World Region
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topic	ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BASIC RESEARCH CAPITAL FLOWS CHRONOLOGY CITIES CLIENT COUNTRIES COLLABORATION COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CONSOLIDATION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DEBT DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC STABILITY ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EVALUATIVE STUDIES EX POST EVALUATION EXCHANGE RATES EXPERIMENTS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL POLICIES FLEXIBILITY FORECASTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS INTEREST RATES LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LICENSING LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMICS MANDATES MIGRATION MODELING POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES QUASIEXPERIMENTAL METHODS REORGANIZATION RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH FUNDS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH PRIORITIES RESEARCH PROGRAMS RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORTS RESEARCH SERVICES RESEARCH THEMES RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RETURN ON EQUITY SAVINGS SCIENTISTS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SURVEY DATA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING TRADE FLOWS TRUST FUNDS URBANIZATION VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM
spellingShingle	ACCOUNTABILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS BASIC RESEARCH CAPITAL FLOWS CHRONOLOGY CITIES CLIENT COUNTRIES COLLABORATION COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS CONSOLIDATION CORRUPTION COUNTERFACTUAL DEBT DECISION-MAKING DEMOCRACY DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME ECONOMIC STABILITY ECONOMICS EMERGING MARKETS EQUILIBRIUM MODELS EVALUATIVE STUDIES EX POST EVALUATION EXCHANGE RATES EXPERIMENTS EXTERNALITIES FINANCIAL POLICIES FLEXIBILITY FORECASTS FOREIGN EXCHANGE GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HOUSING IMPACT EVALUATION INCOME DISTRIBUTION INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS INTEREST RATES LABOR MARKETS LEARNING LICENSING LIVING STANDARDS MACROECONOMICS MANDATES MIGRATION MODELING POVERTY REDUCTION PRIVATIZATION PRODUCTIVITY PROGRAMS PUBLIC ENTERPRISES PUBLIC POLICY PUBLIC SERVICES QUASIEXPERIMENTAL METHODS REORGANIZATION RESEARCH CAPACITY RESEARCH CAPACITY BUILDING RESEARCH EXPENDITURES RESEARCH FINDINGS RESEARCH FUNDS RESEARCH INSTITUTES RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS RESEARCH MANAGEMENT RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH PRIORITIES RESEARCH PROGRAMS RESEARCH PROJECTS RESEARCH REPORT RESEARCH REPORTS RESEARCH SERVICES RESEARCH THEMES RESEARCH WORKING PAPERS RESEARCHERS RESOURCE ALLOCATION RETURN ON EQUITY SAVINGS SCIENTISTS SOCIAL INDICATORS SOCIAL JUSTICE SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SERVICES STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT SURVEY DATA SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TARGETING TRADE FLOWS TRUST FUNDS URBANIZATION VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM Dethier, Jean-Jacques World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
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description	The World Bank is a leading intellectual institution on development. It is a world leader in analytical studies in areas including poverty measurement, delivery of social services, impact evaluation, measurement of development outcomes, international trade and migration. It is also a leader in development data, including the Living Standard Measurement Surveys; the enterprise surveys, and the International Price Comparison Project. World Bank research is resolutely empirical and policy oriented. By both learning from past policies and operations and thinking critically about future policies, research plays a critical role in the formulation of policy advice to developing countries. This paper reviews the intellectual and institutional forces that have shaped research at the World Bank since the latter started lending to developing countries in the early 1950s. It provides an overview of the shifts in development economics that have influenced Bank research and briefly surveys the changes in research organization, structure and approach. The first section, after a short introduction, examines the shifts in positive and normative views about development during the past half century that have influenced Bank thinking. The Bank itself has been an active participant in the rise and fall of long-lived development dogmas about the nature of development; the most appropriate policies and actions for achieving it; and the respective roles of government and markets. The second section examines how the World Bank has adapted its organization to keep abreast of emerging issues and produce relevant policy research of good quality. On the one hand, the Bank has experienced several reorganizations that have affected the research unit(s) as well as its relationship with operational units. On the other hand, the Bank s research units themselves have been reorganized at several junctures, leading to new priorities and new means of achieving them.
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author	Dethier, Jean-Jacques
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title	World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
title_short	World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
title_full	World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
title_fullStr	World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
title_full_unstemmed	World Bank Policy Research : A Historical Overview
title_sort	world bank policy research : a historical overview
publishDate	2012
url	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20090717171036 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4194
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