{"id":305192,"date":"2018-03-14T16:50:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T20:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=305192"},"modified":"2018-03-27T16:20:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T20:20:26","slug":"multinationals-pull-strings-at-world-bank-305192","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/multinationals-pull-strings-at-world-bank-305192\/","title":{"rendered":"Multinationals pull strings at World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The World Bank, established at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, was originally founded to rebuild Western Europe after the devastation of the Second World War. Later in the 1970s, it shifted its focus to alleviating poverty worldwide..<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/psc\/stone\/\">Randy Stone,<\/a> a professor of political science at the University of Rochester, explains in a recent University of Rochester <a href=\"http:\/\/urochester.libsyn.com\/website\/multinationals-pull-strings-at-world-bank\">Quadcast<\/a>, he\u2019s been working on a series of studies about the influence of multinational corporations over multilateral institutions.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"embed-quadcast\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/6361840\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/autoplay\/no\/autonext\/no\/thumbnail\/yes\/preload\/no\/no_addthis\/no\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/87A93A\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 30px;\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/quadcast-transcript-multinationals-pull-strings-at-world-bank\/\">Read the transcript<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Recently, he and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rabiamalik.net\/\">Rabia Malik<\/a>, a post-doctoral researcher at New York University Abu Dhabi, turned their attention to the World Bank, and subsequently published their study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journals.uchicago.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1086\/694102\">\u201cCorporate Influence in World Bank Lending\u201d<\/a> in the <em>Journal of Politics<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He and Malik, who earned her PhD in political science at Rochester, made a series of discoveries that they, as well as World Bank staffers they spoke to, found surprising. They did so by combing through thousands of pages of World Bank project reports and evaluations\u20144,206 projects covering the time period from 1994 to 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The surprising findings <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">First, contemporary models of foreign direct investment assume large multinationals are better equipped to undertake major projects, because they are more productive than smaller firms and they control intangible assets, such as intellectual property. The idea behind using them as World Bank contractors is that their business acumen, combined with their know-how and technology, will make projects more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, that\u2019s not the case, concludes the Rochester team.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure that projects achieve their goals, the World Bank has adopted a rigorous process of evaluation. At any point, failure to meet performance milestones can result in the suspension of loan disbursements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that&#8217;s where it sometimes runs into a little trouble,\u201d says Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Stone and Malik find \u201cno evidence that multinational corporations\u2019 involvement as contractors improves the performance of World Bank projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They discovered instead that the involvement of multinationals led to better evaluations, in spite of the actual performance indicators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve talked to a number of people at the World Bank about this and many of them are surprised by our findings,\u201d says Stone. Most professional staff at the bank are economists, and Stone says he and Malik got plenty of questions from them asking if their study controlled for one or another factor. Each time, Stone says, his answer has been \u201cyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Second, when the researchers looked more closely at the firms with wide divergences between performance and evaluation, they uncovered a second key finding: the divergence was strongly correlated with American and Japanese firms, but not German, French, or British ones.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_307372\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-307372\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-307372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/quadcast-randy-stone-world-bank.jpg\" alt=\"two people sitting in a recording studio\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/quadcast-randy-stone-world-bank.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/quadcast-randy-stone-world-bank-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-307372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Political science professor Randy Stone, left, speaks with Quadcast host Sandra Knispel about his research involving corporate influence on World Bank lending. (University of Rochester photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYou might think, well, multinational corporations are multinational corporations,\u201d says Stone. But instead, the corporate influence both in loan disbursements and evaluations was concentrated among firms headquartered in the United States and Japan, which, it turns out, are also the largest shareholders in the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Malik says she was \u201cdefinitely surprised by how robust our findings were, especially compared to a lot of other factors we considered as alternative explanations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Third, Stone and Malik found that project performance is tied directly to World Bank staffers\u2019 job evaluations and their career paths, creating an incentive for project managers to make outcomes appear rosier than they really are.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How does corporate influencing work? <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In the American case, at least, the researchers surmise it takes place in the interaction among a variety of parties including bank staff, members of Congress, and federal agency personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Stone is careful to admit they didn&#8217;t find the ultimate smoking gun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have an interview with somebody in the World Bank who said, \u2018Well, I did this because I was contacted by the US Treasury\u2019,\u201d he says. But after ruling out other possible explanations, the researchers hypothesize that the undue influence occurs like this, according to Stone:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a multinational corporation, which presumably has lobbied its congressman, and the congressman has presumably contacted\u2014or probably a congressman\u2019s aide has contacted\u2014somebody in the US Treasury, which oversees the World Bank\u2019s US executive director, who sits on the board of the World Bank. Somebody in the US executive director\u2019s office contacts someone in the appropriate department and says, \u2018Well, this is a project we\u2019d kind of like to see go through.\u2019 No one along the way knows how important it was to the multinational, how important it was to the congressman, how important it was to the US Treasury, but it sounds kind of ominous. You don\u2019t want to get in trouble with a congressman, or the US Treasury, right? So, everybody goes along. There\u2019s incentive to disburse. Everybody in the office knows this is a project we\u2019re supposed to disburse, so we\u2019d better give it a pretty good evaluation, because we have to justify the disbursement rate.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stone did make a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain correspondence between the Treasury and congressional offices\u2014about two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I never heard back,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>How to fix the problem<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>For starters, Stone says, the United States is too powerful in the international system and wields too much influence over international organizations. Money, he argues, plays too large a role in American politics.<\/p>\n<p>Put together, it becomes very difficult for international organizations to behave in an unbiased way and to function the way these institutions were intended to.<\/p>\n<p>The most likely start for a fix would be to reform the influence of money on politics in the United States, which is &#8220;a tall order,&#8221; concedes Stone.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, the best way forward may be just to keep shining a bright light.<\/p>\n<p>Says Stone, \u201cIf you can\u2019t reform the campaign finance laws, and you can\u2019t keep the United States in a box\u2014 because it is, after all, the most powerful country in the world\u2014then revealing what\u2019s going on is probably the best antidote to these kinds of patterns of cozy politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the Quadcast, University of\u00a0Rochester\u00a0professor of political science Randy Stone talks about 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