This handbook has been developed to provide instruction on the design and implementation of incentives for resource-efficiency … to be applicable to most, if not all, resource-efficiency issues and incentives. However, it has a particular focus on … purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource-efficiency …

This report presents an impact evaluation assessing the effect of incentives on improving the uptake of Voluntary … Commission of Malawi and implemented from December 2015 to April 2016. The primary research question was whether incentives can … increase VMMC uptake among in-school and out-of-school males aged 10-34. Collective incentives (e.g. whiteboards, football …

This note attempts to identify the factors associated with differences in overall school performance and efficiency. It …

The report summarizes the findings of an allocative efficiency analysis to support Senegal's national HIV response … Government requested the World Bank to conduct this allocative efficiency analysis, using the Optima mathematical model …

In 2016, the Government of Bulgaria (GoB) decided to initiate spending reviews (RS) to improve the efficiency and … from the World Bank. Such support was intended to identify spending pressures and potential efficiency and effectiveness … savings derived from efficiency gains for additional priority spending on waste management. A secondary objective is for this …

. Fiscal policy has been counter-cyclical and progressive but has had a limited impact on economic growth. Spending efficiency … is a key area of concern. Expenditure efficiency in areas such as infrastructure, road transport, health, and education … are significantly behind the global efficiency frontier. The fiscal implications associated with the policy proposals in …

series of policy reforms to unleash the potential of the private sector. It also needs to improve the efficiency of SOEs in …

responsible for the sector's productivity slowdown while allocative efficiency gains improved productivity performance in … investigates differences in productivity dynamics across economic segments and attempts to derive policy recommendations to improve … the Polish economy's productivity performance. First, the authors estimate firm-level total factor productivity (TFP …