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Green Structural Adjustment in the World Bank’s Resilient City
Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020 According to an increasingly prevalent set of discourses and practices within environmental and development finance, cities across the Global South are facing a costly infrastructural crisis stemming from rapid urbanization and climate change that ...
Patrick Bigger, S. Webber
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The World Bank and pharmaceuticals [PDF]
Health Policy and Planning, 2000 Within less than a decade the World Bank has become the largest single source of finance (loans) for health in low and middle income countries as well as a major player in the field of pharmaceuticals. Often 20-50% of the recurrent government health budget in developing countries is used to procure drugs.
T, Falkenberg, G, Tomson
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Central bank digital currency research around the world: a review of literature
Journal of Money Laundering Control, 2022 Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain some insight into central bank digital currency research by reviewing the recent advances in central bank digital currency (CBDC) research in a way that would help researchers, policy makers and practitioners
Peterson K. Ozili
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eLearning course for improving civil registration and vital statistics systems
Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019 The World Bank Group (WBG), in partnership with the Global Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) Group, the Korea Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the WBG Open Learning Campus, launched the first comprehensive CRVS eLearning course in May ...
Samuel Mills +3 more
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on bank lending around the world
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2021 We evaluate the influence of the pandemic on global bank lending and identify bank and country characteristics that amplify or weaken the effect of the disease outbreak on bank credit.
Gönül Ҫolak, Özde Öztekin
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, 2023 As the largest external financier of education in low- and middle-income countries, the World Bank is committed to ensuring that all children around the world have free, inclusive, equitable, and quality education
World Bank
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To Ban or Not to Ban? Regulating Dual Practice in Palestine
Health Systems & Reform, 2017 —Dual practice, health professionals working simultaneously in the public and private sectors, is perceived to negatively impact quality of health care.
Jumana Alaref +5 more
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Economic Contraction from COVID-19 in the Pacific: Implications for Health Financing
Health Systems & Reform, 2020 Pacific Island countries (PIC) have emerged as among the most at-risk globally from the collateral economic damage resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, despite being largely spared its direct health effects so far.
Ajay Tandon +8 more
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The Economic Journal, 1999 This article examines the rationale for the World Bank and explores whether its objective is best served by its current mix of activities. We are critical of the Bank's reliance on conditionality, and advocate evolution into a Knowledge Bank, which would lend with few conditions to countries with good policies and good institutions, and would ...
Gilbert, Christopher Leslie +2 more
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The World Bank’s publication record [PDF]
The Review of International Organizations, 2011 The World Bank claims to be a-knowledge bank, but do its knowledge products influence development thinking, or is the Bank merely a proselytizer? The World Bank is a prolific publisher; for example, it has published more journal articles in economics than any university except Harvard. But what about their impact on development thinking? Using citation
Ravallion, Martin, Wagstaff, Adam
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