1. Aid From the World Bank Caroline Williams

2. Research Question  What is the effect of a country’s involvement in international organizations (IOs) on the aid it receives from the World Bank?

3. Hypothesis  More IOs = More Aid

4. World Bank Aid vs. Involvement in IOs World Bank Aid Involvement in IOs

5. Argument  Barnett and Abbott- IOs facilitate agreements  Williams- World Bank looks at credible commitment status  World Bank- says IOs are something they look at (how much?)

6. Baseline Specification 1  UN Security Council Preference  World Bank shown to be focusing aid  Main World Bank Powers have control

7. Baseline Specification 2  IOs  democratization  willingness to reform  IOs help regulate economic activity  Most similar to my hypothesis

8. Methodology World Bank Aid Data + Involvement in IOs

9. Results: Control Variables  foreign reserves  temporary member on the UNSC Security Council  population  IMF loan  GDP per capita

10. Results  1 st : no control  all positive correlation  2 nd : all control  economic IOs significant  3 rd : all significant control  economic IOs significant

11. Conclusions and Implications  Did not get expected results (Baseline Specification 1)  Only economic IOs significant  All countries  Daniela Donno- conditional

12. Future Work  Specific Regions  Specific International Organizations  Qualitative Data  Case Studies

13. Take Aways  My hypothesis: More IOs= More Aid  Results: Positive Correlation without the control variables  But only economic IOs show overall significance to be  Future work could make the project more specific

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