Before problems can be solved, they must be defined. In global public policy, problems are defined in large part by institutions like the World Bank, whose research shapes our collective understanding of social and economic issues. This article examines how research is produced at the World Bank and deemed to be worthwhile and legitimate. Creating and capturing research on global policy problems requires organizational configurations that operate at the intersection of multiple fields. Drawing on an in-depth study of the World Bank research department, this article outlines the structures and technologies of evaluation (i.e., the measurements and procedures used in performance reviews and promotions) and the social and cultural processes (i.e., the spoken and unspoken things that matter) in producing valuable policy research. It develops a theoretically informed account of how the conditions of measurement and evaluation shape the production of knowledge at a dominant multilateral agency. In turn, it unpacks how the internal workings of organizations can shape broader epistemic infrastructures around global policy problems.

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世界银行的混合知识生产和评估

在解决问题之前，必须先定义它们。在全球公共政策中，问题在很大程度上是由世界银行等机构定义的，它们的研究塑造了我们对社会和经济问题的集体理解。本文探讨了世界银行的研究是如何产生并被认为是有价值和合法的。创建和捕获对全球政策问题的研究需要在多个领域的交叉点上运作的组织配置。本文借鉴世界银行研究部门的深入研究，概述了评估的结构和技术（即绩效评估和晋升中使用的衡量标准和程序）以及社会和文化过程（即口头和不口头重要的事情）进行有价值的政策研究。它对测量和评估条件如何影响主导多边机构的知识生产进行了理论上的解释。反过来，它揭示了组织的内部运作如何围绕全球政策问题塑造更广泛的认知基础设施。