World Bank Independence: A Model and Statistical Analysis of US Influence

By R. Fleck, Christopher Kilby. 2006

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Subfields: Development, Finance, Information Systems

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Do IMF and World Bank Influence Voting in the Un General Assembly? (2006, unknown): “Consequently, Frey and Schneider (1986) find the distribution of Bank loans to be dominated by political considerations; Fleck and Kilby (2001) show that World Bank lending significantly reflects US influence.”
Do Donors Target Aid in Line with the Millennium Development Goals? A Sector Perspective of Aid Allocation (2007, background): “However, various other studies suggest that multilateral institutions are not invulnerable to donor pressure (Weck-Hannemann and Schneider 1981; Frey and Schneider 1986; Dreher 2004; Fleck and Kilby 2006; Kilby 2006; Dreher, Sturm, and Vreeland 2006; Dreher and Jensen 2007).”
Pleasing the Principal: U.S. Influence in World Bank Policymaking (2020, background): “Several studies find evidence of bias in the assistance that politically important countries receive (Frey and Schneider 1986; Fleck and Kilby 2006; Andersen, Hansen and Markussen 2006; Dreher, Sturm and Vreeland 2009).”
Development Aid and Economic Growth: A Positive Long-Run Relation (2009, unknown): “(Fleck & Kilby, 2006a, p. 220).”
The economic and political determinants of IMF and world bank lending in the Middle East and North Africa (2006, background): “…of the political preferences of the IMF and World Bank's principal shareholders on lending decisions (Barro & Lee, 2001; Bird & Rowlands , 2001; Fleck & Kilby, 2001; Killick, 1995; Rowlands, 1995; Thacker, 1999) to the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper which attempts to…”
Donor influence in multilateral development banks: The case of the Asian Development Bank (2006, methodology): “the World Bank (Akins, 1981; Andersen et al., 2005; Fleck and Kilby, 2005; Harrigan et al., 2004)”
Changing aid regimes? U.S. foreign aid from the Cold War to the War on Terror (2010, methodology): “…and Tichit 2004 [random effects], Dollar and Levin 2006); estimate a Heckman selection model (e.g., Berthélemy 2006, Drury et al. 2005, Meernik et al. 1998); or estimate a two part model (e.g., Berthélemy 2006, Berthélemy and Tichit 2002, Fleck and Kilby 2006A, Kilby 2006, Neumayer 2003).”
The roles of foreign aid and education in the war on terror (2008, background): “Hassan (2001) describes a sample of Hamas volunteers with a similar background.”
The choice for multilateralism: Foreign aid and American foreign policy (2012, unknown): “…with significant US influence over World Bank lending, but through evolving rather than stable relationships…US interests in and policy toward the World Bank change frequently with presidential administrations and with economic and political circumstances " (Fleck and Kilby 2006a, pg. 237).”
The political economy of conditionality: An empirical analysis of World Bank loan disbursements (2009, background): “…including the IMF (Andersen et al., 2006b; Dreher and Jensen, 2007; Harrigan et al., 2006; Stone, 2002, 2004; Thacker, 1999; Vreeland, 2005), the World Bank (Andersen et al., 2006a; Fleck and Kilby, 2006; Frey and Schneider, 1986; Harrigan et al., 2006) and regional development banks (Kilby, 2006).”