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This paper investigates whether temporary members of the UN Security Council receive favorable treatment from the World Bank. Using panel data for 157 countries over the period 1970-2004, the authors find a robust positive relationship between temporary UN Security Council membership and the number of World Bank projects a country receives, even after accounting for economic and political factors as well as regional and country effects. The authors demonstrate, however, that the size of World Bank loans is not affected by UN Security Council membership.