decentralization is yet to be followed through with efficient implementation. The Government of Iraq and the World Bank will like to … assess the current status of decentralization and its implications for improving service delivery at the Governorate level …. The objective of the assessment is to take stock of the current state of decentralization in Iraq with a view to …

. This report analyzes recent trends of the fiscal decentralization process in Peru and presents a set of reform options … designed to harvest the envisaged efficiency and equity gains in service delivery that the fiscal decentralization was expected …

Myanmar's decentralization of governance, financing and service delivery is taking place against aparticularly …

employed to improve local governance in developing countries: 1) democratic decentralization or devolution; 2) community …

Located in South Asia, Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world. Pakistan is divided into four … the natural disasters to have struck Pakistan since the country's formation, with the collective toll of the floods prior … Pakistan. As of the earthquake of 2005, the windstorm of 1965 remained the most fatal natural disaster in the country's history …

of low oil prices. Pakistan, while not growing as quickly as its neighbors, has continued its steady growth recovery in H …

This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100 - Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at … 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle …-income country when it turns hundred years old in 2047. This policy note discusses Pakistan's slow transformation and the need to …

This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 … discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when … it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note discusses Pakistan achieving an advantageous environment for public and …

Evidence suggests that Pakistan has the potential for much faster and more diversified economic growth. Energizing … trade can help Pakistan to realize its growth potential. Pakistan's inward-oriented trade policies have had the effect of … stalling Pakistan's integration into regional and global value chains (GVCs). Pakistan's failure to reform its trade policy to …