World Bank's cure for donor fatigue.

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Current Applications, Effectiveness, and Future Perspectives

Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is the infusion of liquid filtrate feces from a healthy donor into the gut of a recipient to cure a specific disease. A fecal suspension can be administered by nasogastric or nasoduodenal tube, colonoscope, enema, or capsule. The high success rate and safety in the short term reported for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection has elevated FMT as an eme...

Environment and Trade in Developing Economies: A Primer for the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects 2001

Constructing genuine savings indicators for Ireland, 1995-2005.

In this paper we compute the genuine savings indicators for the Republic of Ireland over the period 1995-2005. We expand and improve existing World Bank's estimates by: a) using data collected from official Irish sources; b) employing the net present value method to assess resource depreciation; c) including external costs from SO(2) and NOx emissions; and d) estimating human capital accumulati...

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Child Malnutrition in the Developing World

The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the World Bank, its Executive Directors, or the countries they represent. Without wishing to incriminate them in any way, we would like to acknowledge the helpful comments of Peter Lanjouw and Milla McLachlan on an earlier draft of this paper. T...

The World Bank's health projects in Timor-Leste: The political economy of effective aid

The World Bank’s health sector projects in Timor-Leste—the Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project and the Second Health Sector Rehabilitation and Development Project— have been among the few successful operations it has funded in that country. This paper examines the factors underpinning their relative success and considers the wider lessons of the Bank’s experience for our unders...