Health awareness of rural households towards COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Evidence from Rural Impact Survey of the World Bank
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DOI: 10.1002/pa.2819
Abstract: This paper aims at analysing the level of awareness of the symptoms and the methods of protection from COVID‐19 based on the Rural Impact Survey of the World Bank, collected from 5200 households belonging to… read more here.
Keywords: survey world; rural impact; covid pandemic; impact survey ... See more keywords
Capturing the rains: Comparing Chinese and World Bank hydropower projects in Cameroon and pathways for South-South and North South technology transfer
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.051
Abstract: China is an increasingly prominent actor in infrastructure development in the Global South. Hydropower, as a renewable energy source, is a key area in which Chinese technological cooperation and finance can contribute to sustainable growth.… read more here.
Keywords: chinese world; rains comparing; world bank; comparing chinese ... See more keywords
Success and failure in the political economy of solar electrification: Lessons from World Bank Solar Home System (SHS) projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2018.09.024
Abstract: Abstract This study contrasts two national solar home system (SHS) programs that relied on the same World Bank approach, but reached dramatically different results. The Energy Services Delivery Project (ESDP) in Sri Lanka was an… read more here.
Keywords: world bank; home system; solar home;
Is global inequality getting better or worse? A critique of the World Bank’s convergence narrative
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1333414
Abstract: Abstract The dominant narrative of global income inequality is one of convergence. Recent high-profile publications by Branko Milanovic and the World Bank claim that the global Gini coefficient has declined since 1988, and that inter-country… read more here.
Keywords: global inequality; convergence narrative; inequality; world bank ... See more keywords
Asymmetric diffusion: World Bank ‘best practice’ and the spread of arbitration in national investment laws
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DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1719429
Abstract: Abstract Globally, 74 countries have domestic investment laws that mention investor-state arbitration and 42 of these laws provide consent to it. That is, they give foreign investors the right to bypass national courts and bring… read more here.
Keywords: world bank; best practice; investment laws; world ... See more keywords
Economic neutrality during the Cold War: the World Bank, the United States, and Pinochet’s Chile, 1973–1977
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DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2017.1420056
Abstract: Abstract This paper reconstructs the unknown Chile-World Bank interactions during the formative years of Pinochet’s dictatorship (1973–1977). Prevalent understandings of the WB portray it as a loyal Washington ally. However, new evidence from the WB… read more here.
Keywords: cold war; 1973 1977; neutrality; world bank ... See more keywords
The World Bank’s SABER: A Critical Analysis
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DOI: 10.1086/706757
Abstract: The World Bank’s Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) purports to benchmark developing country education systems against global best practices. SABER covers 13 topics, called “domains,” and has produced over 16,000 indicators of what… read more here.
Keywords: best practice; bank saber; analysis; world bank ... See more keywords
Defending supremacy: how the IMF and the World Bank navigate the challenge of rising powers
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DOI: 10.1093/ia/iix167
Abstract: It is widely acknowledged today that the rise of new powers in the global economy has failed to produce commensurate adjustments in the architecture of global economic governance. How, then, do established multilaterals navigate the… read more here.
Keywords: world bank; bank; defending supremacy; imf world ... See more keywords
Hybrid knowledge production and evaluation at the World Bank
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DOI: 10.1093/polsoc/puac009
Abstract: Before problems can be solved, they must be defined. In global public policy, problems are defined in large part by institutions like the World Bank, whose research shapes our collective understanding of social and economic… read more here.
Keywords: evaluation; world; policy; research ... See more keywords
Banking on Health: The World Bank and Health Sector Reform in Latin America
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DOI: 10.1093/sf/soy032
Abstract: W ithin the social sciences, much of the common sense surrounding the behavior of international financial institutions (IFIs), such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB), follows a rather conventional line… read more here.
Keywords: world bank; health; latin america; state ... See more keywords
Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking
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DOI: 10.1111/ajps.12531
Abstract: To what extent do powerful stakeholders shape policy in international organizations? Using an under-utilized data set on the conditions associated with World Bank development policy loans, we find that borrower countries that vote with the… read more here.
Keywords: world bank; pleasing principal; principal influence; world ... See more keywords