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 …

driven by gains in labor productivity, though most of the productivity growth came from increases in within …-sector productivity rather than from reallocation effects. This implies that most of the labor movement occurred from agriculture toward … other sectors with low productivity. Agriculture did not contribute to poverty reduction as it had in the previous decade …