This policy paper is motivated by the Government's 'Pakistan: framework for Economic Growth (FEG) 2011' which places weak corporate governance at the top of the 'software' constraints to growth. The efforts to reform the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) have stalled in Pakistan for almost five...

The guidebook consists of five chapters. Chapter one overviews the CIP process and the challenges of that process in UB, including how the CIP process is linked with other areas of government activities such as long-term planning, asset management, and financial planning and budgeting. Chapter...

Purpose: There is shortage of global research on asset management (AM) by various central governments. This paper aims at reducing this gap. Design/methodology/approach: This general review is based on literature, published government documents, agendas of specialized membership organizations...

Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal transfers for capital spending. While reducing...

<title>Abstract</title> The Urban Institute (UI) worked with five cities in post‐Soviet Kyrgyzstan to apply better management practices through the development of Strategic Land Management Plans. Kyrgyzstan transferred property to local governments, but municipal land management had remained poor owing to a...