Multilateral Development Bank Performance and Competition Data, 1946-2017

30 multilateral development banks across 144 countries from 1946 to 2013 form one part of this dataset. It also includes project performance evaluation data for up to 12,116 projects between 1961 and 2017, focusing on the World Bank. The data was authored by Bernhard Reinsberg and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the effect of new MDB entry on incumbent lending behavior based on country eligibility data.
• Evaluating changes in project quality in response to competition using project performance scores.
• Comparing the World Bank's strategic response to competition with that of other legacy MDBs.
• Modeling the relationship between institutional competition and project 'lock-in' effects on ongoing projects.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal span from 1946 to 2017.
• Includes data on up to 12,116 individual development projects.
• Analyzes 30 institutions across 144 countries, providing broad institutional coverage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count for the primary institutional dataset is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse

Collection Method

Likely compiled from official MDB reports, project evaluation documents, and historical records.

Time Range

1946-2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 22:05:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

144 countries