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Public Sector Reform, Citizen Engagement, and Development Results in India : Lessons and Frontiers

O'Meally, Simon - 2017

strategies of citizen engagement are successful. Drawing on evidence from India and internationally, this report seeks to move … this debate forward. India's progress in development has been impressive, although it faces several challenges. Its … progress, and ongoing challenges, are explained in part by governance dynamics. Moreover, India has been a pioneer in …

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Implementing adaptive approaches in real world scenarios : a Nigeria case study, with lessons for theory and practice

Bridges, Kate; Woolcock, Michael - 2019

How does adaptive implementation work in practice? Drawing on extensive interviews and observations, this paper contrasts the ways in which an adaptive component of a major health care project was implemented in three program and three matched comparison states in Nigeria. The paper examines the...

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Are public sector workers in developing countries overpaid? : evidence from a new global data set

Gindling, Thomas; Hasnain, Zahid; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2019

This paper examines the public sector wage premium using nationally representative household surveys from 91 countries. The public sector generally pays a wage premium compared to all private sector salaried employees, but the size of the premium is sensitive to the choice of the private sector...

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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

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How (not) to fix problems that matter : assessing and responding to Malawi's history of institutional reform

Bridges, Kate; Woolcock, Michael - 2017

Malawi can be understood as a microcosm of institutional reform approaches in developing countries more broadly. A common feature of such approaches, whether implemented by government or donors, is reform initiatives that yield institutions that "look like" those found in higher-performing...

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Can we measure the power of the grabbing hand? : a comparative analysis of different indicators of corruption

Hamilton, Alexander; Hammer, Craig - 2018

Sustainable Development Goal 16 is explicitly committed to measuring aspects of corruption over time, and the identification of robust indicators to do so is an important endeavor. This paper critically reviews the strengths and weaknesses of various objective and subjective indicators of...

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Love the job ... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care

Banuri, Sheheryar; Keefer, Philip; De Walque, Damien - 2018

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task...

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Clientelism in the public sector : why public service reforms fail and what to do about it

Bold, Tessa; Molina, Ezequiel; Safir, Abla - 2018

In many developing countries (and beyond), public sector workers are not just simply implementers of policies designed by the politicians in charge of supervising them-so called agents and principals, respectively. Public sector workers can have the power to influence whether politicians are...

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Alternative Paths to Public Financial Management and Public Sector Reform : Experiences from East Asia

So, Sokbunthoeun - 2018

Reforming public-sector organizations--their structures, policies, processes and practices--is notoriously difficult, in rich and poor countries alike. Even in the most favorable of circumstances, the scale and complexity of the tasks to be undertaken are enormous, requiring levels of...

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Enhancing Public Sector Performance : Malaysia's Experience with Transforming Land Administration

World Bank Group - 2017

This report is part of the series focusing on documenting the lessons from Malaysia for other developing countries in improving their public-sector management. These lessons include those at the center of government, such as the delivery unit method applied to the implementation of the national...

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