We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al. (2000) as well as its sub-indexes, using a panel of 85 countries observed between 1970 and 1997. With respect to the Bank, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact on overall economic freedom, while the effect of the amount of World Bank credits is negative. These ...

We are grateful for an NSF grant through the National Bureau of Economic Research and a grant from the World Bank. The opinions in this paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago or the World Bank. We thank Martin Bodenstein, Yuliya Mescheryakova and Jeffrey Wood for valuable comments and Selim Elekdag, Su Youne Lee and Mi Hwa Park for invalu...

This paper presents a randomized …eld experiment on community-based monitoring of public primary health care providers in Uganda. Through two rounds of community meetings, local NGOs encouraged communities to be more involved with the state of health service provision and strengthened their capacity to hold their local health providers accountable for performance. A year after the intervention,...