Does the Asian Development Bank Respond to Past Environmental Performance when Allocating Environmentally Risky Financing?

World Development

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 336-350

  Buntaine, Mark T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Asian Development Bank; Environmental safeguards; Evaluation; Performance based aid allocation; Project performance

Indexed keywords

AID REFORM; ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENT AID; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; LENDING BEHAVIOR;

EID: 79551499025     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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