How and why do the policy areas covered in World Bank loan conditions change over time across borrowers? We hypothesize that shifts Bank’s economic research priorities influence conditions, even after controlling for country characteristics international political aspects. To test this claim we apply keyword-assisted topic models to analysis of 13,000 close 35,000 papers published between 1985 ...

202 www.thelancet.com Vol 371 January 19, 2008 Chen refers to several potential confounding factors. We believe that, in this population, educational level is a better measure of socioeconomic status than annual income, and is what we adjusted for. The relation between abdominal obesity and COPD is not consistent, and many studies suggest that it is related to a restrictive rather than obstruct...

This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993 200...

A t the World Economic Forum this year, World Bank President Jim Kim proposed the Global Financing Facility (GFF) to donors as an innovative model for investing in reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH-N). The World Bank believes that business as usual is not enough to close the annual financing gap of $33.3bn (£25.4bn; €28.4bn) to meet the 2030 sus...

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 Cooperation between the World Bank and India goes back to foundation of International for Reconstruction Development (IBRD) in 1944. As one 44 countries, prepared agenda Bretton Woods Conference June The Indian delegation led by Sir Jeremy Raisman, Finance Member Government India, proposed name "International managed lift 133 million people out poverty 1994 2012. However, with a...

Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...