Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for … further reforms for 2015?2017, which will eliminate most consumers'subsidies. This paper evaluates (ex post) the 2014 reforms … simulation model designed by the World Bank. It finds that the 2014 reforms have been a good mix of reforms from a distributional …

institutional contexts of a given country limit options for service delivery reforms, and therefore how a feasible set of reform …The paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully …

This paper reviews the literature relevant to understanding political constraints to economic reforms. Reform refers to … economy of reform literature has been why reforms are not undertaken when they are needed for the good of society. The … achieve the goals of economic well-being and development. Further, reforms refer to the alternative policies and institutions …

performance of private investment. Reforms to improve the policy framework in these areas, up to the level of the best …-ranking countries, could offset the recently observed growth slowdown in emerging economies. These reforms would revitalize potential …

revealing reform winners. It may also lead to situations in which reforms that enjoy both ex ante and ex post majority support …Support for economic reforms has often shown puzzling dynamics: many reforms that began successfully lost public … support. This paper shows that learning dynamics can rationalize this paradox because the process of revealing reform outcomes …

typically support market-liberalizing reforms. A simple model predicts that World Bank staff will invest more effort in … resources are more productive -- in terms of reform success -- in the design of policy operations than in their supervision …

permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in … services. The authors examine the link between those reforms and the productivity of manufacturing firms using panel data for … about 4,000 Indian firms from1993 to 2005. They find that banking, telecommunications, insurance and transport reforms all …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 …