Speaker: Alvis Tang
Title: Diagnostics before prescription? Preliminary evidence from World Bank Group Country Engagements
Abstract: Diagnostics have been widely advocated & adopted as a tool for identifying development priorities (e.g. Rodrik, 2010), yet little is known about their effectiveness in shaping subsequent policies. Exploiting the staggered introduction of a reform in the World Bank Group’s country engagement procedure, I study whether the Group’s operations become more aligned with the sectoral priorities. Preliminary results suggest that the reform neither narrows the sectoral focus of operations nor increases their alignment with diagnostic priorities.
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