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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2751| Title: | Shooting the messenger of good news : a critical look at the World Bank's success story of effective aid |
| Keywords: | F35 ddc:330 financial aid World Bank International Development Association Entwicklungsfinanzierung Entwicklungshilfe Armutspolitik Wirtschaftspolitische Wirkungsanalyse Kritik Welt Entwicklungsländer |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
| Description: | In a report presented at the UN Conference on Financing for Development in March 2002, the World Bank claims that the effectiveness of its financial aid has improved substantially by targeting aid at poor developing countries pursuing sound economic policies. However, the World Bank's success story rests on an extremely weak foundation: First, the institution's contribution to financial rescue packages for some emerging markets, rather than poverty concerns and policy assessments, dominated the distribution of World Bank financing. Second, the picture portrayed in the report takes a bad turn if only two outliers with extremely high per capita aid (Cape Verde and Honduras) are excluded from the sample. Third, according to our regression results, the allocation of World Bank aid did not improve in the course of the 1990s. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/2751 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/2751 ppn:348213174 ppn:348213174 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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