Producing knowledge for development: Research at the World Bank

Global Governance

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-478

  Dethier, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

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EID: 37349038288     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-01304002     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. The Data Group produces World Development Indicators and manages the Development Data Platform (DDP), a Web-based repository of a large number of surveys that is linked to software for analyzing and disseminating time-series information (through Web-based tables, charts, and maps).
2. The complete list of Bank research publications in 1998-2005 is available, with the evaluation report, at http://econ.worldbank.org/research (see note 9).
3. Of the 617 ongoing projects, there were 170 new projects initiated in FY 2004/05.
4. The budget figures reported here refer to activities charged as research (RF code) in the Time Reporting System and do not include spending on ESW that can be assimilated to research. They include direct charges, such as staff time and travel, but omit management and clerical staff time and other overhead expenses. The figures do not include data from the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).
5. For a more complete discussion, see Nicholas Stern, Jean-Jacques Dethier, and Halsey Rogers, Growth and Empowerment: Making Development Happen (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005).
6. The panel includes Angus Deaton (Princeton University), Abhijit Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT), Nora Lustig (United Nations Development Programme), and Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), former chief economist at the IMF.
7. The evaluators are Daron Acemolu (MIT), Francesco Caselli (London School of Economics), Tim Besley (London School of Economics), Sebastian Edwards (UCLA), Gordon Hanson (UC San Diego), Nina Pavcnik (Dartmouth College), Esther Duflo (MIT), Murray Leibbrandt (University of Cape Town), Nancy Birdsall (Center for Global Development), Josh Angrist (MIT), Sebastian Galiani (Universidad de San Andres, Argentina), Jonathan Morduch (NYU), Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago), Justin Lin (Beijing University), Chris Udry (Yale), Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford), Edward Glaeser (Harvard), Michael Kremer (Harvard), Andrew Foster (Brown), Geoffrey Heal (Columbia), Peter Diamond (MIT), Antoinette Schoar (MIT), and Jan Sjvenar (University of Michigan).
8. The panel mentions "Aid, Policies, and Growth," by Craig Burnside and David Dollar, in the American Economic Review, 2000 (which has 743 citations in Google Scholar);
9. and "Growth Is Good for the Poor," by David Dollar and Aart Kraay, in the Economic Journal, 2004 (893 citations in Google Scholar),
10. as well as the 2001 World Bank Policy Research Report, Globalization, Growth, and Poverty.
11. The complete evaluation report and the response of the Bank's chief economist are available on the World Bank external website: www.worldbank.org (type "research evaluation" in the search box) and/or at http://econ.worldbank.org/research.