Documents & Reports
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Concept Program Information Document (PID) - The First Solomon Islands Resilience DPO with a Catastrophe Deferred Drawdown Option - P178676 (English)
Document Type: Program Information Document Report No.: PIDC35430 Document Date: May 22, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk
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Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Solomon Islands FY22 Supplemental Development Policy Operation - P178608 (English)
Document Type: Program Information Document Report No.: PIDA34164 Document Date: May 4, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk
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Appraisal Program Information Document (PID) - Solomon Islands FY22 Supplemental Development Policy Operation - P178608 (English)
Document Type: Program Information Document Report No.: PIDA33625 Document Date: April 19, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk
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The Pandemic’s Extensive Reform Agenda : How Can the Development Community Contribute? (English)
The COVID-19 crisis requires policy reforms on many fronts, from debt sustainability to climate-smart recovery. This Research & Policy brief draws on theory and empirical evidence to explore the opportunities...
Document Type: Brief Report No.: 168657 Document Date: February 15, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk,Record,Richard James Lowden
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Dealing with Disasters : Analyzing Vanuatu’s Economy and Public Finances Through the Lens of Disaster Resilience (English)
This report provides a selected analysis of Vanuatu’s economy and public finances, emphasizing the lens of disaster resilience. It draws upon the analysis and tools from two core World Bank diagnostic...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 168305 Document Date: February 1, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk,Mcdonald,Paul Lachlan,Rezza,Alief Aulia,Hasanov,Rashad,Dornan,Matthew Selwyn,Petrou,Kirstie Cameron,Doan,Thi Thuy Dung,Silva Parsons,Kenia Hatsue,Kojucharov,Nikola Denchev,Last,Becky,Wilson,Jessica Rose,Shrivastava,Animesh,Gamarra,Janet,Osborne,Michael Graeme,Irava,Wayne Jeremy,Lele,Kenslyne
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From Workfare to Welfare and Well-Being? : Evidence From a Randomized Control Trial With the Urban Poor in Eastern DRC (English)
Over the past decades, the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been host to an explosive mix of weak governance, widespread poverty, natural resource mismanagement, land disputes...
Document Type: Report Report No.: 161264 Document Date: July 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Brandily,Paul Philippe Nicolas,Kiemtore,Issa,Mvukiyehe,Eric,Smets,Lodewijk
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Supporting Policy Reform from the Outside (English)
Sound economic and social policies are important if countries wish to prosper and achieve sustainable development. It is far from guaranteed, however, that policymakers select and implement good policies...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 160984 Document Date: February 1, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk
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Is It the Journey That Matters ? A Fresh Look at the Impact of World Bank Policy Lending (English)
This paper investigates the impact of World Bank development policy operations on the quality of economic policy during the period 1998-2015. A new theoretical framework distinguishes among three effects...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8645 Document Date: November 13, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Moll,Peter G.,Smets,Lodewijk
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An evaluative look behind the curtain : World Bank Group staff's early experience with the shared prosperity goal (English)
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as...
Report No.: WPS8293 Document Date: January 3, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk,Bogetic,Zeljko
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Association of World Bank policy lending with social development policies and institutions (English)
Do World Bank policy loans that are focused on social policy reform help improve social policies and institutions in borrower countries? To help answer this question, this paper provides new empirical...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8263 Document Date: November 28, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Smets,Lodewijk
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Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent (English)
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8247 Document Date: November 20, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ohler,Hannes,Negre,Mario,Smets,Lodewijk,Massari,Renzo,Bogetic,Zeljko
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Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent (English)
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 125573 Document Date: November 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Öhler, Hannes,Negre Rossignoli,Mario,Smets,Lodewijk,Massari,Renzo,Bogetic, Željko
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World Bank policy lending and the quality of public sector governance (English)
This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending for public sector governance on the quality of public sector management and institutions. The World Bank’s Country Policy and...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7267 Document Date: May 15, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk,Knack,Stephen
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World Bank lending and the quality of economic policy (English)
This study investigates the impact of World Bank development policy lending on the quality of economic policy. It finds that the quality of policy increases, but at a diminishing rate, with the cumulative...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6924 Document Date: June 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Knack,Stephen,Smets,Lodewijk
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Political ideology, quality at entry and the success of economic reform programs (English)
This study investigates how government ideology matters for the success of World Bank economic policy loans, which typically support market-liberalizing reforms. A simple model predicts that World Bank...
Report No.: WPS6130 Document Date: July 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Knack,Stephen,Molenaers, Nadia,Smets,Lodewijk
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Aid tying and donor fragmentation (English)
This study tests two opposing hypotheses about the impact of aid fragmentation on the practice of aid tying. In one, when a small number of donors dominate the aid market in a country, they may exploit...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5934 Document Date: January 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Knack,Stephen,Smets,Lodewijk