The Political Economy of Decentralization Reforms

Kent Eaton, Kai-Alexander Kaiser, Paul J Smoke

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• This volume presents a framework designed to help international development partners consider the relevance of political economy issues for their prog... Lees meer

Data-Driven Decision Making in Fragile Contexts

World Bank

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• The need for evidence-based decision making at all levels of government is perhaps greatest in fragile settings. Data deficiencies contribute to state... Lees meer

Problem-Driven Political Economy Analysis

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• Problem-driven political economy analysis holds considerable promise for development practitioners seeking to identify policies and strategies that ar... Lees meer

Accountability in Public Expenditures in Latin America and the Caribbean

Omowunmi Ladipo, Alfonso Sánchez, Jamil Sopher

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• Fiscal discipline and public sector efficiency became prominent issues in Latin America and the Caribbean in the late 1980's following external debt c... Lees meer

Transfer Pricing and Developing Economies

Joel Cooper, Randall Fox, Jan Loeprick, Komal Mohindra

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• Recent years have seen unprecedented public scrutiny over the tax practices of Multinational Enterprise (MNE) groups. Tax policy and administration co... Lees meer

Diagnosing Corruption in Ethiopia

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• For decades, corruption in Ethiopia has only been discussed at the margins. Perhaps because many have not experienced corruption as a significant cons... Lees meer

Judiciary-Led Reforms in Singapore

Waleed Haider Malik

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• While each country's judiciary is unique in its individual needs, capabilities and contexts, the lessons learned from Singapore's success can help gui... Lees meer

Toward Next-Generation Performance Budgeting

Donald Moynihan, Ivor Beazley

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• Toward Next-Generation Performance Budgeting: Lessons from the Experiences of Seven Reforming Countries analyzes the difficulties that national govern... Lees meer

Weather and Climate Resilience

David P Rogers, Vladimir V Tsirkunov

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• The importance of weather, climate, and water information is rising because of the need to minimize growing economic losses, serve more elaborate soci... Lees meer

Beyond the Annual Budget

World Bank

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• What conditions determine the success of Medium Term Expenditure Frameworks (MDTFs)? How should the implementation of MTEFs be sequenced and coordinat... Lees meer

From Falling Behind to Catching Up

Richard Record, Praveen Kumar, Priscilla Kandoole

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• Despite decades of development efforts supported by significant amounts of foreign aid, Malawi has experienced weak and volatile economic growth perfo... Lees meer

Fiscal and Welfare Impacts of Electricity Subsidies in Central America

World Bank, Marco Antonio Hernandez Ora

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• Central American countries spend approximately one percent of their aggregate gross domestic product subsidizing residential electricity consumption. ... Lees meer

Public Access to Information for Development

Victoria L LeMieux, Stephanie E Trapnell

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• With more than 100 right to information (RTI) laws--also called freedom of information or access to information laws--now in place globally, the groun... Lees meer

Making It Happen

World Bank

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• South Africa has achieved a lot on its path of socio-economic transformation since the end of Apartheid in 1994. While many challenges remain to foste... Lees meer

Benchmarking and Self-Assessment for Parliaments

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• With international focus on good governance and parliamentary effectiveness, a standards-based approach involving benchmarks and assessment frameworks... Lees meer

Closing the Feedback Loop

World Bank

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• This book is a collection of articles, written by both academics and practitioners as an evidence base for citizen engagement through information and ... Lees meer

Bringing Government Into the 21st Century

World Bank

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• This volume--a collaborative work between the World Bank's Global Governance Practice and a team of researchers working with the Korean Development In... Lees meer

Income and Asset Disclosure

World Bank

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• Income and asset disclosure systems (IAD) are gaining prominence as a tool in the fight against corruption, and have the potential to support efforts ... Lees meer

Rules on Paper, Rules in Practice

Edouard Al-Dahdah, Cristina Corduneanu-Huci, Gael Raballand, Myriam Ababsa, Ernest Sergenti, Anya Vodopyanov

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• The primary focus of this book is on a specific outcome of the rule of law: the practical enforcement of laws and policies, and the determinants of th... Lees meer

Financial Sector Development in Africa

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• This edited volume contains eight studies of financial sector challenges in Africa that served as background studies for Financing Africa: Through the... Lees meer

Is Fiscal Policy the Answer?

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• The global financial crisis has reignited interest in counter-cyclical fiscal policy as a critical instrument to provide immediate economic stimulus. ... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Energy Subsidy Reform

World Bank

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• This book proposes a simple framework for understanding the political economy of subsidy reform and applies it to four in-depth country studies coveri... Lees meer

Puzzles of Economic Growth

World Bank

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• Looking at the economic growth of seemingly similar countries one can find striking differences. Why has Australia gotten so much ahead of New Zealand... Lees meer

Strengthening Domestic Resource Mobilization

Raul Felix Junquera-Varela, Marijn Verhoeven, Gangadhar P Shukla, Bernard Haven, Rajul Awasthi, Blanca Moreno-Dodson

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• Strengthening Domestic Resource Mobilization: Moving from Theory to Practice in Low- and Middle-Income Countries analyzes the present status of govern... Lees meer