@article{d238028d4e604e5bb8abb7deaf13d778,
title = "Choosing to target: What types of countries get different types of world bank projects",
author = "Winters, {Matthew S.}",
note = "Funding Information: *Previous versions of this paper were presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Midwest Political science association, the 2009 annual meeting of the international studies association, the Princeton University ir Faculty Colloquium, and the Brooks World Poverty institute{\textquoteright}s advanced graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and globalization at the University of Manchester. thanks to Kate Baldwin, David epstein, Macartan humphreys, helen Milner, Kevin Morrison, Pablo Pinto, shanker satyanath, Miguel Urquiola, Milan Vaishnav, Joseph Wright, and the World Politics reviewers and editors for comments. thanks also to Jake Bowers, Devesh Kapur, alex scacco, tracy sulkin, Michael tierney, and rebecca Weitz-shapiro for useful conversations. the author wishes to acknowledge the financial support of the institute for social and economic Policy and research at Columbia University and the niehaus Center for globalization and governance at Princeton University. 1 the Pearson Commission says, “[i]ncreased allocation of aid should be primarily linked to performance.” Cited in easterly 2007, 637. Assessing Aid argues that “financial assistance must be targeted more effectively to low-income countries with sound economic management”; World Bank 1998, 4. the Monterrey Consensus proclaims, “[s]ound policies and good governance at all levels are necessary to ensure o d a effectiveness”; United nations 2002. 2 e.g., acemoglu, Johnson, and robinson 2001; rodrik, subramanian, and trebbi 2004. 3 e.g., neumayer 2003b; Berth{\'e}lemy and tichit 2004; Dollar and Levin 2006; easterly 2007; Ber-meo 2008; Freytag and Pehnelt 2009. one could also read the empirical results this way in Bueno de Mesquita and smith 2007; and Bueno de Mesquita and smith 2009. they find that larger winning coalitions in recipient countries result in more aid. although the authors argue that this supports their theoretical model of foreign aid being used to purchase policy concessions, it could indicate that donors reward countries for being more democratic.",
year = "2010",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1017/S0043887110000092",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "62",
pages = "422--458",
journal = "World Politics",
issn = "0043-8871",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "3",
}