Documentos e informes
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Clientelism in the public sector : why public service reforms may not succeed and what to do about it (Inglés)
The World Development Report 2017 Governance and the Law (World Bank, 2017) highlights the intimate connection between the effectiveness of policy reforms and governance. The Report argues that power asymmetries...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 113420 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Bold,Tessa,Molina,Ezequiel,Safir,Abla
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World development report 2017 : hybrid land regulation between the commons and the market land tenure in the Comoros (Inglés)
Following a chaotic political decolonization, from 1975 to 2000, the Comoros failed to sustain the extension of private land ownership pursued since the beginning of the twentieth century and to implement...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112917 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Le Roy,Étienne
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World development report 2017 : from de-jure to de-facto : Mapping dimensions and sequences of accountability (Inglés)
Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable institutions is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112920 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Staffan I. Lindberg,Anna Lührmann,Valeriya Mechkova
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World development report 2017 : Illicit financial flows and governance - the importance of disaggregation (Inglés)
After decades of billion dollar scandals around long-serving dictators removing vast fortunes from their impoverished nations, the broader phenomenon of which this is part has acquired a label: Illicit...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112973 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Reuter,Peter
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Corruption as social order (Inglés)
To understand why corruption has become the crucial issue for the latest generation of protestmovements and uprisings, from Tunisia to Moldova and from India to Brazil, public corruption is best conceived...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 116067 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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World development report 2017 : Water from the heights, water from the grassroots : the governance of common dynamics and public services in La Paz-El Alto (Inglés)
In this paper, the authors approach water governance not only through the prism of sectoral organization and the official services, but also through all of the practices, still to be “integrated” into...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112881 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Botton,Sarah,Hardy,Sébastien,Poupeau,Franck
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World development report 2017 : Guatemala’s international commission against impunity - a case study on institutions and rule of law (Inglés)
In the last years of the armed conflict, some of the actors that have participated in those clandestine operations re-adapted their modus operandi to fit other types of criminal activities such as customs...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112904 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Carrera, Fernando
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World development report : the effect of local governance on firm productivity and resource allocation - evidence from Vietnam (Inglés)
Governance quality plays a key role in private sector development: competent bureaucrats not only create good policies and regulations but also effectively implement them to shape the business environment...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112974 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: W. Tan,Shawn,T. Tran,Trang
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Corruption spotlight (Inglés)
The weak enforcement of a rule of law is closely related to the prevalence of corruption. Corruption involves different types of rule-violations by bureaucrats, politicians and businesses where power is...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 116065 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Khan,Mushtaq Husain
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World development report 2017 : gender based violence and the law (Inglés)
The phenomenon of gender-based violence is pervasive around the world, experienced by some one in three women in their lifetimes. The elimination of such violence has been increasingly recognized as a...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112914 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Klugman,Jeni
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Governance and violence (Inglés)
This background paper addresses four questions. The questions are : 1) What did Weber say when he defined the modern state as the organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence? 2) What...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 116064 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wallis,John Joseph
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World development report 2017 : toward an analytical framework for the governance of natural resources : The case of groundwater (Inglés)
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the exploitation...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112919 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Leyronas,Stéphanie,Maurel,Frédéric,Rojat,Dominique,Giraud,Gaël
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World development report : governance in service delivery in the Middle East and North Africa (Inglés)
This paper examines the clientelistic equilibrium that remains prevalent in much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the post-independence period, undermining service delivery and...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112976 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed
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World development report 2017 : legal reforms and economic performance : revisiting the evidence (Inglés)
This paper investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112947 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Oto-Peralías,Daniel,Romero-Ávila,Diego
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World development report 2017 : rent creation and rent containment - the political economy of telecommunications in Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey (Inglés)
The evolution of the telecommunications sector is of keen interest from both a development and a political economy perspective. Telecommunications is critical to economic dynamics, to the quality of life...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112874 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Atiyas,Izak,Levy,Brian David,Walton, Michael
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World development report 2017 : Contestability and changes in tolerance towards corruption : the formation of an elite-citizen coalition in Mexico (Inglés)
This paper uses some of the main elements of the World Development Report 2017 framework to analyze how the initiative came to be. First, it looks to investigate the origin of the constitutional changes...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112915 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2017 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Lach,Samantha
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World development report 2017 : multi-scalar governance and institutions - intentional development and the conditions of possibility in the extractive sector (Inglés)
The World development report (WDR) 2017 is centrally interested in the conditions under which three headline development outcomes (growth, equity, security) can be achieved by improving the effectiveness...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112948 Fecha del documento: 2 de junio de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Porter,Douglas John,Watts,Michael John
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World development report 2017 : the complex network of public policies - an empirical framework for identifying their relevance in economic development (Inglés)
This paper presents an innovative methodology for discovering policies that are consistent with economic development. A development footprint narrative is advanced to suggest that laggard countries can...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112906 Fecha del documento: 26 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Castaneda Ramos,Gonzalo Alberto,Iniguez, Gerardo,Chavez-Juarez, Florian
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World development report 2017 : the impact of trade openness on institutions (Inglés)
The impact of opening to trade on economic institutions is likely to be multifaceted and depend crucially on country-specific circumstances. In the past decade an active body of research has studied this...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112918 Fecha del documento: 2 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Levchenko,Andrei A.
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World development report 2017 : Accounting for cross-country income differences : ten years later (Inglés)
The study focused on a cross-section of countries observed in the mid-1990s, so the conclusions from that effort are beginning to be a bit dated. In addition, signicant revisions of the data underlying...
Tipo de documento: Informe sobre el desarrollo mundial Número del informe: 112882 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2016 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Caselli,Francesco