Development aid and international politics: does membership on the UN Security Council influence World Bank decisions?
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The authors investigated whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank, using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1970-2004, and found a robust positive relationship between temporary UNSC membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for economic and political factors.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2009-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 439 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Development aid & International relations.read more
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