WORLD BANK GROUP: Published Articles

Askaro, Hossein and Catherine Brown. 2001. "Water Management, Middle East Peace and a Role for the World Bank." Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 53 (216): 3-36.

Aslam, Abid. 2004. "Covering the World Bank." In Anya Schiffrin and Amer Bisat (eds.). Covering Globalization: A Handbook for Reporters.New York: Columbia University Press, p. 289-299.

Bebbington, Anthony. 2004. "Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank." Journal of Development Studies 40 (5): 33-64.

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar. 2005. "Does the World Bank Have any Impact on Human Development of the Poorest Countries? Some Preliminary Evidence from Africa." Economic Systems 29 (4): 422-432.

Banerjee, Abhijit and Ruimin He. 2003. "The World Bank of the Future." American Economic Review 93 (2): 39-44.

Bird, Graham. 1998. "The Effectiveness of Conditionality and the Political Economy of Policy Reform: Is It Simply a Matter of Political Will?" Journal of Policy Reform 1 (1): 89 - 113.

Bird, Graham and Dane Rowlands. 2000. "The Catalyzing Role of Policy-Based Lending by the IMF and the World Bank: Fact or Fiction?" Journal of International Development 12 (7): 951-73.

Bird, Graham and Dane Rowlands. 2001. "World Bank Lending and Other Financial Flows: Is There a Connection?" Journal of Development Studies 37 (5): 83-103.

Bond, Patrick. 2000. "Defunding the Fund, Running on the Bank." Monthly Review 52 (3): 127-140.

Boockmann, Bernhard and Axel Dreher. 2003. “The Contribution of the IMF and the World Bank to Economic Freedom.” European Journal of Political Economy 19 (3): 633-49.

Brunner, Ronald D. 2004. "Context-Sensitive Monitoring and Evaluation for the World Bank." Policy Sciences 37 (2): 103-136.

Bull, Benedicte. 2004. "Confronting the 'Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse': Critical Literature on the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organisation: Review Essay." European Journal of Development Research 16 (3): 737-745.

Burki, Sahid Javed. 2001. "The World Bank in a 'Globalizing' World." 2001. In Stephany Griffith-Jones and Amar Bhattacharya (eds.). Developing Countries and the Global Financial System. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, p. 127-145.

Burki, Shahid Javed. 2005. "World Bank Operations: Some Impressions and Lessons." In Indermit S. Gill and Todd Pugatch (eds.). At the Frontlines of Development: Reflections from the World Bank. Washington, DC: World Bank, p. 123-149.

Butkiewicz, James L, and Halit Yanikkaya. 2005. "The Effects of IMF and World Bank Lending on Long-Run Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis." World Development 33 (3): 371-391.

Calomoris, Charles. 2000. "When Will Economics Guide IMF and World Bank Reforms" Cato Journal 20 (1): 85-103.

Cammack, Paul. 2004. "What the World Bank Means by Poverty Reduction, and Why it Matters." New Political Economy 9 (2): 189-211.

Corbo, Vittorio and Patricio Rojas. 1992. "World Bank-Supported Adjustment Programs: Country Performance and Effectiveness." In Vittorio Corbo, Stanley Fischer and Steven B. Webb (eds.) Adjustment Lending Revisited: Policies to Restore Growth. Washington, DC: World Bank, p. 23-36.

Daly, Herman E. 1994. "Fostering Environmentally Sustainable Development: Four Parting Suggestions for the World Bank." Ecological Economics 10 (3): 183-187.

de Vries, Barend. 1997. "The World Bank as an International Player in Economic Analysis." History of Political Economy 28 (0) Supplement: 225-244.

Dieter, Heribert. 2004. "The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank: In Need of a Better Performance?" AsiaEurope Journal 2 (1): 109-120.

Dollar, David and Jakob Svensson. 2000. "What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programmes?" Economic Journal 110 (466): 894-917.

Dreher, Axel. 2004. “A Public Choice Perspective of IMF and World Bank Lending and Conditionality.” Public Choice (forthcoming).

Dreher, Axel and Roland Vaubel. 2004: Do the IMF and IBRD Cause Moral Hazard and Political Business Cycles? Evidence from Panel Data. Open Economies Review 15 (1): 5 -22.

Easterly, William. 2003. "IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs and Poverty." In Michael Dooley and Jeffrey A. Frankel (eds.), Managing Currency Crises in Emerging Markets. Chicago: University of Chicago, p. 361-382

Easterly, William. 2005. "What did Structural Adjustment Adjust? The Association of Policies and Growth with Repeated IMF and World Bank Adjustment Loans." Journal of Development Economics 76 (1): 1-22.

Einhorn, Jessica. 2006. "Reforming the World Bank: Creative Destruction." Foreign Affairs 85 (1): p. 17-22.

Engelschalk, Michael and Tuan Minh Le. 2005. "Two Decades of World Bank Lending for Customs Reform: Trends in Project Design, Project Implementation, and Lessons Learned." In Luc De Wulf and Jose B. Sokol (eds.). Customs Modernization Handbook.Washington, DC: World Bank, p. 127-152.

Fox, Jonathan and John Gershman. 2000. "The World Bank and Social Capital: Lessons from Ten Rural Development Projects in the Philippines and Mexico." Policy Sciences 33 (3-4): 399-419.

Frey, Bruno S., Henrik Horn, Torsten Persson and Friedrich Schneider. 1985. "A Formulation and Test of a Simple Model of World Bank Behavior." Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 121 (3): 438-447.

Frey, Bruno S. and Friedrich Schneider. 1986. "Competing Models of International Lending Activity." Journal of Development Economics 20 (2): 225-245.

Gavin, Michael and Dani Rodrik. 1995. "The World Bank in Historical Perspective." American Economic Review 85 (2): 329-34.

Gilbert, Christopher, Andrew Powell and David Vines. 1999. "Positioning the World Bank." Economic Journal 109 (459): F598-F633.

Goldstein. Morris. 2000. "Strengthening the International Financial Architecture." In Joseph R. Bisignano, William C. Hunter and George G. Kaufman (eds.), Global Financial Crises: Lessons from Recent Events. Boston: Kluwer Academic, p. 389-395.

Grasso, Patrick G. 2005. "Quality of Evaluative Information at the World Bank." In Robert Schwartz and John Mayne (eds.). Quality Matters: Seeking Confidence in Evaluating, Auditing, and Performance Reporting. Comparative Policy Evaluation Series, vol. 11. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction, p. 91-111.

Gutner, Tamar. 2005. "Explaining the Gaps between Mandate and Performance: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform." Global Environmental Politics 5 (2): 10-37.

Gutner, Tamar. 2005. "World Bank Environmental Reform: Revisiting Lessons from Agency Theory." International Organization 59 (3): 773-783.

Harrigan, Jane, Chengang Wang, and Hamed El-Said. 2006. "The Economic and Political Determinants of IMF and World Bank Lending in the Middle East and North Africa." World Development 34 (2): 247-270.

Hillman, Arye L. 2002. “The World Bank and the Persistence of Poverty in Poor Countries.” European Journal of Political Economy 18 (4): 783-95.

Holtom, Duncan. 2005. "Reconsidering the Power of the IFIs: Tanzania and the World Bank, 1978-1985." Review of African Political Economy 32 (106): 549-567.

Hopkins, Raul, Andrew Powell, Amlan Roy and Christopher L. Gilbert. 1997. "The World Bank and Conditionality." Journal of International Development 9 (4): 507-16.

Hubbard, Michael. 2001."Attacking Poverty- A Strategic Dilemma for the World Bank." Journal of Development Economics 62 (1): 233-259.

Kapur, Devesh. 2002."The Common Pool Dilemma of Global Public Goods: Lessons from the World Bank's Net Income and Reserves." World Development 30(3): 337-354.

Keenan, Jeremy H. 2005. "Chad-Cameroon Oil Pipeline: World Bank and ExxonMobil in 'Last Chance Saloon'." Review of African Political Economy 32 (104-105): 395-405.

Kilby, Christopher. 2000. "Supervision and Performance: The Case of World Bank Projects." Journal of Development Economics 62 (1): 233-259.

Kilby, Christopher. 2005. "World Bank Lending and Regulation." Economic Systems 29 (4): 384-407.

Kilby, Christopher. 2001. "World Bank-Borrower Relations and Project Supervision." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 22 (1): 191-218.

Killick, Tony. 1996. "Principals, Agents and the Limitions of BWI Conditionality." World Economy 19 (2): 211-229.

Killick, Tony. 1997. "Principals, Agents and the Failings of Conditionality." Journal of International Development 9 (4): 483-495.

Kirby, Peadar. 2002. “The World Bank or Polanyi: Markets, Poverty and Social Well-Being in Latin America.” New Political Economy 7 (2): 199-219.

Koeberle, Stefan G. 2003. “Should Policy-Based Lending Still Involve Conditionality?” World Bank Research Observer 18 (2):249-273

Klein, Michael. 1998. "One Hundred Years after Bretton Woods: A Future History of the World Bank Group." EIB Papers 3 (2): 31-58.

Krueger, Anne O. 1998. "Whither the World Bank and the IMF?" Journal of Economic Literature 36 (4): 1983-2020.

Lethbridge, Jane. 2005. "The Promotion of Investment Alliances by the World Bank: Implications for National Health Policy." Global Social Policy 5 (2): 203-25.

Mallaby, Sebastian. 2005. "Saving the World Bank." Foreign Affairs 84 (3): 75-85.

Mallick, Sushanta and Brigitte Granville. 2005. "How Best to Link Poverty Reduction and Debt Sustainability in IMF-World Bank Models?" International Review of Applied Economics 19 (1): 67-85.

Mallick, Sushanta and Brigitte Granville. 2005. "How Best to Link Poverty Reduction and Debt Sustainability in IMF-World Bank Models? Erratum." International Review of Applied Economics 19 (2): 269.

Mallick, Sushanta and Tomoe Moore. 2005. "Impact of World Bank Lending in an Adjustment-Led Growth Model." Economic Systems 29 (4): 366-383.

Matthes, Jurgen, and Christoph Schroder. 2005. "Business Regulation in International Comparison--Aggregating World Bank "Doing Business" Data." CESifo Forum 6 (1): p. 42-49.

Mckenzie, David J. 2004. “An Econometric Analysis of IBRD Creditworthiness.” International Economic Journal 18 (4): 437-448.

Meltzer, Allan H. 2005. "New Mandates for the IMF and World Bank." Cato Journal 25 (1): 13-16.

Morrissey, Oliver and Doug Nelson. 2004. "The Role of the World Bank in the Transfer of Policy Knowledge on Trade Liberalisation." In Douglas Nelson (ed.). The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger. Amsterdam, San Diego, CA and Oxford: Elsevier, p. 173-194.

Moser, Caroline. 2001. "Insecurity and Social Protection -- Has the World Bank Got It Right?" Journal of International Development 13 (3): 361-68.

Mosley, Paul. 1997. "The World Bank, 'Global Keynesianism' and the Distribution of the Gains from Growth." World Development 25 (11): 1949-1956.

Nielson, Daniel L. and Michael J. Tierney. 2005. "Delegation to International Organizations: Agency Theory and World Bank Environmental Reform." In Lisa L. Martin (ed.). International Institutions in the New Global Economy.Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Elgar, p. 571-606.

Nielson, Daniel L. and Michael J. Tierney. 2005. "Theory, Data, and Hypothesis Testing: World Bank Environmental Reform Redux." International Organization 59 (3): 785-800.

Noorbakhsh, Farhad and Alberto Paloni. 1998. "Structural Adjustment Programmes and Export Supply Response". Journal of International Development 10 (June): 555-573.

Noorbakhsh, Farhad and Alberto Paloni. 1999. "Structural Adjustment Programs and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restructuring or De-Industrialization?" Journal of Developing Areas 33 (4): 549-580.

Noorbakhsh, Farhad and Alberto Paloni. 2001. "Structural Adjustment Programs and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Importance of Complying with Conditionality". Economic Development and Cultural Change 49 (3): 479-509.

Oestreich, Joel E. 2004. "The Human Rights Responsibilities of the World Bank: A Business Paradigm." Global Social Policy 4 (1): 55-76.

Perraudin, Willim and Anne Sibert. 2000. “The Timing of Multilateral Lending.” Economic Journal 110 (460): 192-211.

Pillarisetti, J. Ram. 2005. "The World Bank's 'Genuine Savings' Measure and Sustainability." Ecological Economics 55 (4): 599-609.

Pohl, Gerhard and Dubravko Mihaljek. 1992. "Project Evaluation and Uncertainty in Practice: A Statistical Analysis of Rate-of-Return Divergences of 1,015 World Bank Projects." World Bank Economic Review 6 (2): 255-277.

Rapkin, David P. and Jonathan R. Strand. 1997. "The United States and Japan in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Sharing or Contesting Leadership?" International Journal 52 (2): 265-296.

Ratha, Dilip. 2005. "Demand for World Bank Lending." Economic Systems 29 (4): 408-421.

Rodrik, Dani. 1996. "Why is There Multilateral Lending?" In Michael Bruno and Boris Pleskovic (eds.). Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics 1995. Washington, DC: World Bank, p. 167-193.

Rutkowski, Michal. 2004. "Home-made Pension Reforms in Central and Eastern Europe and the Evolution of the World Bank Approach to Modern Pension Systems." In Martin Rein and Winfried Schmahl (eds.). Rethinking the Welfare State: The Political Economy of Pension Reform. Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Elgar, p. 319-333.

Sanford, Jonathan E. 2004. "IMF Gold and the World Bank's Unfunded HIPC Deficit." Development Policy Review 22 (1): 31-40.

Sanford, Jonathan E. 2002. "World Bank: IDA Loans or IDA Grants?" World Development 30 (5): 741-62.

Sapsford, David and Hans Singer. 1998. "The IMF, the World Bank, and Commodity Prices: A Case of Shifting Sands?" World Development 26 (9): 1653-1660

Sarfaty, Galit A. 2005. "The World Bank and the Internalization of Indigenous Rights Norms." Yale Law Journal 114 (7): 1791-1818.

Schiff, Maurice and Alan L. Winters. 2002. “Regionalism and Development: The Implications of World Bank Research for ACP and Latin American Countries.” Journal of World Trade 36 (3): 479-99.

Shaw, D. John. 2005. "Turning Point in the Evolution of Soft Financing: The United Nations and the World Bank." Canadian Journal of Development Studies 26 (1): 43-61.

Shaw, Judith. 1999. "A World Bank Intervention in the Sri Lankan Welfare Sector: The National Development Trust Fund." World Development 27 (5): 825-838.

Standing, Guy. 2000. "Brave New Worlds? A Critique of Stiglitz's World Bank Rethink." Development and Change 31 (4): 737-63.

Stiglitz, Joseph. 1999. "The World Bank at the Millennium." Economic Journal 109 (459): F577-F597.

Swamy, M. R. Kumara. 2004. "Is the World Bank Funding to the African Region Gainful Or Wasteful? A Financial Management Case for Restructuring of the World Bank." International Journal of Business 9 (2): 201-210.

Taylor, Lance. 1998."The Revival of the Liberal Creed -- The IMF and the World Bank in a Globalized Economy." In C. Milner (ed). Developing and Newly Industrializing Countries. Vol. 2. Northampton, MA: Elgar, p. 187-94.

Teichman, Judith. 2004. "The World Bank and Policy Reform in Mexico and Argentina ." Latin American Politics and Society 46 (1): 39-74.

Terry, Edith. 2000."How Asia Got Rich: World Bank vs. Japanese Industrial Policy." Japanese Economy 28 (2): 76-96.

Thomas, M. A. 2004. "Can the World Bank Enforce its Own Conditions?" Development and Change 35 (3): p. 4854-97.

Thompson, Mark. 2004. "Discourse, 'Development' and the 'Digital Divide': ICT and the World Bank." Review of African Political Economy 31 (99): 103-123.

Tungodden, Bertil, Nicholas Stern and Ivar Kolstad. Annual World Bank Conference on Development Economics--Europe 2003: Toward Pro-Poor Policies: Aid, Institutions, and Globalization. Washington, D.C.: World Bank; Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Vaubel, Roland. 1986. "A Public Choice Approach to International Organization." Public Choice 51 (1): 39-57.

Vaubel, Roland. 1996. "Bureaucracy at the IMF and the World Bank: A Comparison of the Evidence." World Economy 19 (2): 195-210.

Wade, Robert Hunter. “US Hegemony and the World Bank: The Fight Over People and Ideas.” Review of International Political Economy 9 (2): 201-29.

Winters, L. Alan.  2004. "Coherence with No 'Here': WTO Co-Operation with the World Bank and the IMF." In Douglas Nelson (ed.). The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger. Contributions to Economic Analysis, vol. 270. Amsterdam, San Diego and Oxford: Elsevier, p. 329-351.

Woods, Ngaire. 2000. "The Challenge of Good Governance for the IMF and the World Bank Themselves." World Development 28 (5): 823-841.

World Bank. 2005. "Models, Templates and Currents: The World Bank and Electricity Reform." Review of International Political Economy 12 (4): 647-673.

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