全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent

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来源类型	Article and other Publication
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0218671
	Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent
	Öhler, Hannes; Mario Negre; Lodewijk Smets; Renzo Massari; Željko Bogetić
出版年	2019
摘要	The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution. This paper contributes to the incipient literature on within-country allocations of development institutions and assesses the geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent. Bivariate correlations between the allocation of project funding approved over 2005–14 and the geographical distribution of the bottom 40 as measured by survey income or consumption data are complemented by regressions with population and other potential factors affecting the within-country allocations as controls. The correlation analysis shows that, of the 58 countries in the sample, 41 exhibit a positive correlation between the shares of the bottom 40 and World Bank funding, and, in almost half of these, the correlation is above 0.5. Slightly more than a quarter of the countries, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, exhibit a negative correlation. The regression analysis shows that, once one controls for population, the correlation between the bottom 40 and World Bank funding switches sign and becomes significant and negative on average. This is entirely driven by Sub-Saharan Africa and not observed in the other regions. Hence, the significant and positive correlation in the estimations without controlling for population suggests that World Bank project funding is concentrated in administrative areas in which more people live (including the bottom 40) rather than in poorer administrative areas. Furthermore, capital cities receive disproportionally high shares of World Bank funding on average.
URL	https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/putting-your-money-where-your-mouth-is-geographic-targeting-of-world-bank-projects-to-the-bottom-40-percent-1/
来源智库	German Development Institute (Germany)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/499529
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Öhler, Hannes,Mario Negre,Lodewijk Smets,et al. Putting your money where your mouth is: geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent.