to improve the quality and reproducibility of development research around the world …

This joint report by the World Bank and OECD identifies building blocks for more effective co-operation and is the …, which examined the organizational structure for investigating and prosecuting tax crime and corruption, as well as models … warranted to improve interagency cooperation, as only 55 percent of the surveyed countries require corruption investigators to …

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 … looking ahead to the future, the time is ripe for the World Bank to take a fresh look at the state of play in tackling …

implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). To facilitate the review of Party States (Dominican …

. Unfortunately, many LAC countries entered the crisis with low potential economic growth and high levels of inequality, following the … region's recent period of stagnant growth. The 2020 COVID-19 crisis will likely reverse in a short time frame many of the …. Income inequality also decreased, as income growth has been primarily pro-poor in recent years. Despite variations across …

, prices for both mobile communications and fixed broadband are higher in the DR than in peer countries. Following the World …

sustainable economic growth. It does so by attempting to answer the following five questions, each of which constitutes a separate … chapter: (i) what were the salient structural characteristics of Niger's growth performance in the last 20 years; (ii) what … are the margins to accelerate growth in the medium to long term; (iii) how can technology be a vehicle for private sector …

The Ivorian economy needs to sustain its growth momentum. During the last decade, Cote d'Ivoire's growth performance …, however, it needs to maintain the strong growth for many years to come. Fewer than 15 countries have managed to sustain high … growth for over 25 years in the postwar period, and their experience has shown that increasing productivity is at the heart …

Global growth is projected to be slightly faster in 2020 than the post-crisis low registered last year. While growth … outlook is to the downside. Growth in emerging market and developing economies is also expected to remain subdued, continuing … a decade of disappointing outcomes. A steep and widespread productivity growth slowdown has been underway in these …