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Achieving better governance has been a central problem for development. When public services are not delivered as intended, reform action becomes necessary and that involves deliberate activities to change laws, structures, and processes to improve public sector performance and benefit public...
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This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … internal and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others -- such …
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Governments must decide how to allocate limited resources for infrastructure development, particularly since financing gaps have been projected for the coming decades. Social cost-benefit analysis provides sound project appraisal and, when systematically applied, a basis for prioritization. In...
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the Women Entrepreneurship Development Project, a Government of Ethiopia initiative financed by a World Bank International … countries in the world, and government administration units involved in administering projects often face funding and resource …
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of resources, and operational efficiency, significant time and resources have been invested by the World Bank and other … development institutions into such systems across the world. However, the reform of financial management information systems tends … and protocol based case studies, and a comprehensive desk review of the World Bank financial management information …
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Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted...
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Performance budgeting is considered one of the essential elements of public financial management reform and has been adopted in many countries. However, it continues to present a significant challenge within the budget process. This case study draws from change management theories to tell the...
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This paper is a case study of what is recognized as one of the more successful projects in any country in the Europe and Central Asia region, not to mention in the poorest country of the region-Moldova. The ARIA project shows new ways to attack some of the most intractable problems of private...
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This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government...
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Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and social class … income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean country …
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