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Assessing Governance, Staff Guidance Note on the Governance Rating of the Bank’s Country Performance Assessment
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe purpose of this note is to provide guidance to Bank staff on the sources of evidence available to inform the assessment of the governance rating and thereby reduce the scope for subjectivity of the annual CPA exercise. It is designed in particular for Country Economists responsible for the coordination of the CPA exercise, undertaken each year. It aims at enhancing the objectivity, quality,...
Matching reforms to institutional realities : a framework for assessing social service delivery reform strategies in developing countries
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully-considered institutional "fitting" process as opposed to transplantation of "international best practices." The paper asks how the specific institutional contexts of a given country limit options for service delivery reforms, and therefore how a feasible set of reform options may vary...
How close is your government to its people? worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThis paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution of the last three decades on moving governments closer to people to establish fair, accountable, incorruptible and responsive governance. To accomplish this, a unique data set is constructed for 182 countries by compiling data from a wide variety of sources to examine success toward decentralized decision...
Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThis study conducted by the OECD and the World Bank analyses the identification and quantification of the proceeds of active bribery in international business transactions. Active bribery is defined as the “…criminal offence committed by paying, offering or promising a bribe or an undue advantage to an official”. The authors contend that while international efforts thus far has put a lot of...
Building Better Policies: The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation
Book, Inter-Governmental Organization, Donor[...] This book is useful to anyone who cares about the quality of public policies and who wants to learn and understand how public policies and programs can be shaped with the objective of improving people’s welfare. You might be interested in setting development goals and specific targets for development outcomes for a specific country, province, city, or sectoral entity, and in the techniques...
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology : causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ?
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorAggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in aid policy. Few studies examine the validity of these indexes, however. This paper partially fills this gap by examining empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of control of corruption, rule of...
Vietnam Urbanisation Review
Report, Inter-Governmental Organization, Donor, GovernmentAs Vietnam enters a crucial period of urbanization corresponding to its present stage of economic development, the Government of Vietnam has placed strong emphasis on developing its system of cities. In accordance with this objective this Urbanization Review is dedicated to understanding the key dimensions and aspects of Vietnam's urbanization process and to identifying trends, opportunities,...
Gender and Elections | BRIDGE
Governance and Gender, Training Material, Inter-Governmental Organization, UNDP Produced, Other UN Agency, Civil Society, DonorIn many places in the world, women struggle to be heard and, when it comes to having a voice in the highest authority in the land, the difficulties in some countries can be almost insurmountable. Gender issues affect all aspects of an election. There are numerous barriers to women’s participation in political and electoral processes. This module examines strategies for promoting women’s...
Working towards more effective collective donor responses to corruption: Background study of how donors have responded to corruption in practice
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Corruption, Report, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorIn 2006, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Ministers of Development expressed a desire to move towards more effective collective responses to governance issues, particularly as regards corruption. In 2007 the OECD Policy Paper on Anti-Corruption “Setting an Agenda for Collective Action” proposed developing a voluntary code of conduct for co-ordinated donor responses to...
Aid and Domestic Accountability Revised Background Paper as of February 2010
Civil Society, Report, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe GOVNET work-stream on aid and domestic accountability will make a strategic contribution to the activities of the Working Party on Aid Effectiveness and, ultimately, the fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, to be held in 2011. The work-stream is also expected to play an integrative function, providing a common framework that will add value to the activities of a number of...