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Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency : The Fight Against Corruption
World Bank Group - 2020
News headlines over the last few years have been filled with global scandals involving corruption on an unprecedented … operating procedures, will result in new corruption scandals in the post-COVID (coronavirus) years. There are already reports in … corruption and how countries are attempting to address this long-standing scourge on development …
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Governance Risk Assessment System (GRAS) : Advanced Data Analytics for Detecting Fraud, Corruption, and Collusion in Public Expenditures
World Bank Group - 2023
Corruption poses a significant threat to development and has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable …. Government agencies struggle to identify fraud and corruption in public expenditures. Risk assessments usually rely on manual …, corruption, and collusion in government contracting. GRAS increases the efficiency and effectiveness of audits and investigations …
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Rural development : from vision to action
McCalla, Alex F. (contributor); Ayres, Wendy S. (contributor) - 1997
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Analyse d'une repartition du niveau de vie.
Assama-Nssah, B. - World Bank Group - 1997
La structure de la repartition du niveau de vie su sein d'une population donnee est le cheval de bataille analytique de toute evaluation sociale. Dans une optique de choix collectifs, une telle repartition sert d'indicateur de l'etat social. En general, on presente une repartition d'un...
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Review of Early Childhood Policy and Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Colletta, N.J.; Reinhold, A.J. - World Bank Group - 1997
The present review explores ways of meeting these developmental challenges. It focuses on efforts that address the intersecting health, nutrition, and early education needs of children up to six years old in their institutional and socio-cultural environments. The paper also reviews current...
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Welfare and the Labor Market in Poland: Social Policy during Economic Transition.
Rutkowski, J.J. - World Bank Group - 1998
This report assesses the changes in social welfare and policy that have taken place in Poland during the economic transition. It aims to test the main hypotheses concerning changes in the role of the welfare state, workings of the labor market, the distributional consequences of transition, and...
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Social Assistance in Albania. Decentralization and Targeted Transfers
Alderman, H. - World Bank Group - 1998
Albania provides a small amount of social assistance to nearly 20 % of its population through a system that allows a degree of community discretion in determining distribution. This study investigates the poverty targeting of this program. It indicates that relative to other safety net programs...
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Malaysia's Experience with National Development Planning : Looking Back, Looking Ahead
World Bank Group - 2021
Malaysia stands out for its strong economic performance and resilience over a period of sixty years which delivered rapid and inclusive economic growth to its diverse population. This paper describes and evaluates Malaysia's experience with National Development Planning (NDP). It discusses...
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Improving Governance of Indonesia's Peatlands and Other Lowland Ecosystems
World Bank Group - 2021
The report aims to advance a policy dialogue on how to address sustainability challenges from lowland developments. The specific approach discussed in this report is the "landscape approach" which, in turn, calls for improved "landscape governance." As a technical background study, the report...
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Actionable Regulatory Governance Indicators for UE Regions
World Bank Group - 2018
The European Union's Cohesion Policy is its biggest investment instrument. It supports the Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth. With a budget of EUROS 351.8 billion for 2014-2020, the Cohesion Policy accounts for around one-third of the EU budget. The Cohesion Policy...
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