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TESTIMONY

Examining Results and Accountability at the World Bank
Scott Morris
March 22, 2017
Scott Morris testified before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade at a hearing titled, “Examining Results and Accountability at the World Bank” on March 22, 2017. Morris’s testimony offered recommendations for Congress in effective oversight and i...
Blog Post

Does the World Bank RISE to the Challenge of Measuring Energy Access?

Todd Moss
and
Gailyn Portelance
March 17, 2017
The World Bank recently released a "global scorecard for policymakers" called the Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE). Here are a few of our takeaways from an initial read of the energy access section.
Blog Post

Why the World Bank Can Now Afford to Say No to the United States
Scott Morris
December 15, 2016
The 18th "replenishment" of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) opened the door to a major source of non-donor financing in the years ahead, which will mean—to put it bluntly—that the World Bank can now literally afford to say no to the Un...
Blog Post

Finding Up-to-Date Median Income Data Just Got Much Easier (Thanks, PovcalNet!)
Anna Diofasi
and
Nancy Birdsall
October 19, 2016
We have long advocated for more widespread use of median income or median consumption to compare individuals’ material well-being between countries and its development over time, and we are happy to report that the World Bank team that manages the (impressive) PovcalNet database has ...