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The World’s Bank and the Bank’s World
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations, 2007Abstract Who or what shapes and drives the policy and operational behavior of the World Bank? The objective of this essay is to lay the conceptual and empirical framework for this special issue. I begin by constructing a synthetic theoretical model—drawing from principal-agent models and sociological institutionalism—to delineate the set of external ...
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2009
The World Bank is always good for an argument. Whatever the company, views are likely to be strongly held. They will range from outright condemnation to reluctant skepticism to ecstatic approval.
Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller
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The World Bank is always good for an argument. Whatever the company, views are likely to be strongly held. They will range from outright condemnation to reluctant skepticism to ecstatic approval.
Xu Yi-chong, Patrick Weller
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The World Bank for Africa or the World Bank for the World Bank?
2010Sub-Saharan Africa saw faster economic growth in the years immediately preceding the 2009 world economic crisis than ever before in history. From 2003 to 2008 the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa grew at an average annual per capita rate of 4 percent,1 compared with averages in the preceding decades (going back in time) of -0.5 percent, -0.8 percent, 0 ...
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The Effects of Cultural Values on Bank Failures around the World
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2020We conduct the first broad-based international study on bank-level failures covering 92 countries over 2000–2014, investigating national cultural variables as failure determinants. We find individualism and masculinity are positively associated with bank
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International bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank)
Yearbook of the United Nations, 2021semanticscholar +1 more source
2018
The World Bank, one of the largest global health funders, continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Internal constraints limit the Bank’s ability to do so, since its Articles of Agreement explicitly forbid it from interfering in a country’s internal political affairs, making it unclear whether human rights risk management is within ...
Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Jennifer Prah Ruger
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The World Bank, one of the largest global health funders, continues to deny a formal legal obligation for human rights. Internal constraints limit the Bank’s ability to do so, since its Articles of Agreement explicitly forbid it from interfering in a country’s internal political affairs, making it unclear whether human rights risk management is within ...
Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Jennifer Prah Ruger
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Banking on the Poor: The World Bank and World Poverty
Foreign Affairs, 1983William Diebold, Robert L. Ayres
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2020
This first-of-its-kind evaluation assesses the scope of the World Bank Group’s convening power and how effectively it is deployed. The report finds that the Bank Group’s comparative advantages give it strong convening power that it uses on many development issues.
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This first-of-its-kind evaluation assesses the scope of the World Bank Group’s convening power and how effectively it is deployed. The report finds that the Bank Group’s comparative advantages give it strong convening power that it uses on many development issues.
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Innovation in the Banking World
Intense competition in the banking sector ensures continuous product and service development. This development through technology returns as an element that improves technology. The continuation of this cycle reveals new ideas, new inventions, new models, and new ways of doing business every day.openaire +1 more source