Evaluating the impact of world bank structural adjustment lending: 1980–87

IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty

US Politics and World Bank IDA-Lending

This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993 200...

An Analysis of Pharmaceutical Lending by the World Bank

a structural survey of the polish posters

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What did structural adjustment adjust?: The association of policies and growth with repeated IMF and World Bank adjustment loans

Analysis of adjustment loans often overlooks their repetition to the same country. Repetition changes the nature of the selection problem. None of the top 20 recipients of repeated adjustment lending over 1980–99 were able to achieve reasonable growth and contain all policy distortions. About half of the adjustment loan recipients show severe macroeconomic distortions regardless of cumulative a...