Documentos e informes

Digital Government Transformation in Vietnam : Global Lessons and Policy Implications (Inglés)

This policy note highlights the important benefits that digital government can bring to a country’s government and people. Specifically, it states the rationale for digital government transformation in...

Timor-Leste - Public Expenditure Review : Changing Course - Towards Better and More Sustainable Spending (Inglés)

This Public Expenditure Review is focused on the quality and sustainability of public spending. The key objective of this Public Expenditure Review (PER) is to assess the quality of public spending, by...

Taking Stock : What will be the New Normal for Vietnam? - The Economic Impact of COVID-19 (Inglés)

As of early July 2020, life in Hanoi appears to be back to normal or close to what it used to be before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The government’s policy helped contain the virus and contributed...

Taking Stock : What will be the New Normal for Vietnam? - The Economic Impact of COVID-19 : Taking Stock : What will be the New Normal for Vietnam? - The Economic Impact of COVID- (Vietnamita)

As of early July 2020, life in Hanoi appears to be back to normal or close to what it used to be before the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic. The government’s policy helped contain the virus and contributed...

Technology for Results : Using Smartphones to Verify Results and Serve the Public in Vietnam’s Water Sector (Inglés)

The note serves to show how smartphones and digital platforms/workflows can be effectively used to collect and process validation data about decentralized/dispersed frontline results. The case study shows...

Making China’s Public Sector Capital Investments Sustainable : Priorities and Selected International Experiences (Inglés)

The objective of capital budgeting institutions and practices is to ensure linkages between key policy objectives and actual budget resource allocation related to public investments.The report serves to...

Sin tax reform in the Philippines : transforming public finance, health, and governance for more inclusive development (Inglés)

Excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol products can be an effective instrument for promoting public healththrough curbing smoking and excessive drinking, while raising significant revenues for developmentpriorities...

Pork to performance : open government and program performance tracking in the Philippines - phase two (Inglés)

From pork to performance illuminates the politics of how public resources are spent and the difficulty of the ‘last mile’ of service delivery. Crumbling facilities, absentee teachers, and roads to nowhere...

Findings from the Joint IFAD-World Bank assessment of the National Targeted Program on New Rural Development (NTP-NRD) phase one : overall assessment - executive summary (Inglés)

In its first phase, the NRD made important contributions to rural development, particularly through its role in assisting the improvement of rural socio-economic infrastructure. However its direct contribution...

Big data innovation challenge : pioneering approaches to data-driven development (Inglés)

Big data can sound remote and lacking a human dimension, with few obvious links to development and impacting the lives of the poor. Concepts such as anti-poverty targeting, market access or rural electrification...

Ten principles of effective tobacco tax policy (Inglés)

This brief provides guidance in the design of effective tobacco tax policies in countries such as the emerging ASEAN economies, where tax administration and enforcement capacity may not be as strong as...

Philippines - Making education spending count for the children of autonomous Muslim region of Mindanao : public expenditure and institutional review for ARMM basic education (Inglés)

Children in the autonomous region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have long suffered from the effects of underdevelopment, neglect, and conflict. The proportion of families in poverty in ARMM is the highest...

East Asia and Pacific economic update, October 2014 : enhancing competitiveness in an uncertain world (Inglés)

This issue of the East Asia and Pacific economic update is based on data available through September 29, inclusive. This report also includes a special section, focusing on two crucial medium-term issues...

The power of public investment management : transforming resources into assets for growth (Inglés)

This publication consists of seven chapters: building a system for public investment management; a unified framework for public investment management; country experiences of public investment management;...

Philippines - PH - PH Development Policy Loan 2 : P126580 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (Inglés)

Philippine economic update : pursuing inclusive growth through sustainable reconstruction and job creation (Inglés)

Despite typhoon Yolanda and a string of natural disasters throughout 2013, Philippine economic growth accelerated to 7.2 percent in 2013. Higher growth was underpinned by the robust performance of consumption...

Electoral accountability and local government spending in Indonesia (Inglés)

This paper takes advantage of the exogenous phasing of direct elections in districts and applies the double-difference estimator to measure impacts on (i) human development outcomes and (ii) the pattern...

Intergovernmental fiscal management in natural resource rich settings (Inglés)

In resource-dependent countries, natural resources constitute one of the main assets available for financing local governments because the economy is not greatly diversified. The goal of this note is to...

Philippines - National Program Support for Tax Administration Reform. : P101964 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10 (Inglés)

Philippines - Institutionalizing Zero-Based Budgeting/Program Evaluation in the Government : P129377 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 01 (Inglés)