scholarly journals Tracing the institutional barriers to the integration of the social protection and fragile states agendas within the World Bank

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-124
Author(s):  
Sophie Mackinder
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Fragile States ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Bank Staff ◽  
The World ◽  
Institutional Architecture

AbstractThe share of the extreme poor living in fragile and conflict-affected situations is projected to rise above 50 per cent by 2030. There is consequently an acute need for poverty-reduction mechanisms such as social protection within these contexts, which requires the integration of the discourse and policies on fragility with those on social protection. This paper traces the development of the two agendas in the World Bank, through documentary analysis and 43 interviews with Bank staff. It explores the extent to which social protection is considered within the fragility agenda (and vice versa), to establish whether the building of social protection systems is included within the broader ambition of “state-building” and considers the barriers to further integration of these agendas. The paper concludes that interaction between them has been limited to date and highlights the Bank’s own institutional architecture as a barrier to a more integrated approach.

scholarly journals Did the learning agenda of the world bank-administrated health results innovation trust fund shape politicised evidence on performance-based financing? A documentary analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Gautier ◽  
Valéry Ridde
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Trust Fund ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Performance Based Financing ◽  
Bank Staff ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of Knowledge

The World Bank, co-funded by Norway and the United Kingdom, created and managed an innovative financing mechanism, the Health Results Innovation Trust Fund (HRITF), to support performance-based financing (PBF) reforms in low- and middle-income countries. From its inception in late 2007, until the closing of fundraising in 2017, it has carried out a wide range of activities related to experimenting PBF. In conjunction with the World Bank, which positioned itself as a “learning organisation”, donors have pushed the HRITF towards developing a specific learning agenda for  documenting the policy impact of PBF. This learning agenda has been primarily based on impact evaluations of PBF pilot programmes. As a new body took over the HRITF’s portfolio (Global Financial Facility),a documentary analysis of this learning agenda is timely. Building from public policy concepts that have been applied to social and health policy, and knowledge translation literature, we examine the learning agenda implemented by the HRITF over these 10 years. Our data includes documentation and publications (N=35) on HRITF and from the HRITF online platform. Results indicate that on several  fronts, the HRITF shaped some form of politicised knowledge, notably in the ways country pilot grants were designed and evaluated. Some of its learning activities also provided opportunities for a transformative use of knowledge for World Bank staff as well as national implementers and policymakers. We also provide reflections about the HRITF’s preferred approaches to produce knowledgeand learn. 

THE WORLD BANK ABOUT SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: THE EVOLUTION OF APPROACHES

2021 ◽  
pp. 97-109
Author(s):  
Olga Pryazhnikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Global Agenda

The World Bank has made an important contribution to shaping the global agenda for reducing poverty, increasing prosperity and promoting sustainable development. The review examines the main milestones in changes of the World Bank’s activities in the field of social development. The evolution of the organization’s approaches to solving the problem of poverty reduction as one of the key obstacles to socio-economic development is outlined.

Aid Effectiveness

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Aid Effectiveness ◽  
Bilateral Aid ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Reduction Strategies ◽  
The One ◽  
The Imf

The collaboration the U4 launched at Utstein covered a wide variety of development issues handled by different international institutions. This involved in the first place coordination of their positions at the World Bank and the IMF, and the UN and its funds, programmes, and agencies. The World/Bank IMF were very important both because of the size and extent of their own programmes but also for helping developing countries manage the overall poverty reduction strategies within which all bilateral aid was supposed to fit. Increasing the effectiveness of bilateral aid could only succeed if it were part of a consistent overarching multilateral effort. This chapter starts with a discussion of U4 efforts to ensure that the poverty reduction strategies developed with the help of the World Bank/IMF in connection with debt relief actually reflected developing country priorities. It then moves on to U4’s efforts to improve the effectiveness of UN programmes which tended to be characterized by fragmentation and inefficiencies. The last part addresses the problem of coherence and collaboration between the IMF and the World Bank—the international financial institutions, on the one hand, and the UN and its agencies, on the other.

Social knowledge and international policymaking at the World Bank

2009 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Toye
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Social Knowledge ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Bureaucracy ◽  
Binding Constraints

The production of social knowledge in all international organizations is problematic because all are public bureaucracies. The World Bank provides a case study of the problems of managing in-house research in an international public bureaucracy. Not only are there managerial constraints on what the Bank is willing to publish, but the binding constraints on publication evolve. The evolution in managerial objectives at the Bank in recent years and the factors that have influenced shifts in its rhetoric and policy are examined. Are these adjustments merely rhetorical? Recent research on poverty reduction, governance and conditionality is discussed to gauge how far the Bank has moved.

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