Rapid results initiatives (RRI) are an important part of World Bank Institutes (WBI's) toolkit of leadership activities, all of which are customized to focus on the most pressing needs of a particular...
This note provides an overview of the budgetary process with specific reference to allocations for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment and highlights potential trouble-spots where the exercise of parliamentary...
Many leadership interventions in Madagascar and other countries have shown that focusing on leadership can be effective in leveraging and accelerating technical reforms in a variety of settings. Reinforcing...
This paper provides an analytical framework, a non-conventional thought and economic policy to get Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on a sustained growth path to breakthrough in the 21stcentury. The paper argues...
This report undertaken in 2006 is part of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development's (GOV) efforts to identify emerging...
This volume demonstrates that compared with other regions, social accountability initiatives across South and Southeast Asia have a much greater element of community participation and involvement. The...
The book assesses the current state of Russia's regional and local fiscal relations, and self-government, and analyzes the related reforms undertaken over the past decade. The analysis is based on the...
This paper forms part of the effort of the World Bank to deepen the understanding of the role of parliaments in the Poverty Reduction Strategy (PRS) process with a view to building country ownership and...
With the often substantial turnover of election officials through elections, it has become increasingly obvious that there is a huge need for orientation programs and materials for new legislators. This...
This paper, explores how the composition of public spending, and the manner in which the public resources are spent may have affected the ability of poor people to connect to growth in the 1990s. Following...
As part of its Governance program, the Poverty Reduction and Economic Reform Division of the World Bank Institute (WBIPR) has sought to strengthen parliamentary oversight - in part, by improving parliaments'...
Este trabajo identifica los conceptos fundamentales para evaluar el impacto de las reformas de infraestructura sobre los pobres, basándose en un detallado análisis de los efectos de una década de reformas...
This comprehensive study identifies the concepts that are central to assessing the effect of infrastructure reform on the poor, based on a detailed analysis of the effects of a decade of reforms in Latin...
This comprehensive study identifies the concepts that are central to assessing the effect of infrastructure reform on the poor, based on a detailed analysis of the effects of a decade of reforms in Latin...
While China made impressive achievements in economic growth, and poverty reduction over the last quarter century, it now faces daunting, internal challenges, such as ensuring employment to millions over...
While China made impressive achievements in economic growth, and poverty reduction over the last quarter century, it now faces daunting, internal challenges, such as ensuring employment to millions over...
While China made impressive achievements in economic growth, and poverty reduction over the last quarter century, it now faces daunting, internal challenges, such as ensuring employment to millions over...