This sixth edition (issued February 2025) is effective from March 1, 2025. Procurement in Investment Project Financing (IPF) supports Borrowers to achieve value for money (VfM) with integrity in delivering...
Las notas de política de Panamá se elaboraron para ayudar a enmarcar el diálogo inicial entre el Grupo Banco Mundial (GBM) y la nueva administración gubernamental tras las elecciones nacionales de mayo...
Fiscal incidence analysis helps in understanding who contributes to and benefits from the fiscal system, and assessing the impact of fiscal policies in reducing poverty and inequality. Traditionally, the...
The development objective of the Strengthening Intergovernmental Transfers and Subnational Finance for Service Delivery in Indonesia (Sinergis) Program for Indonesia is to improve the equity, efficiency...
Analysing who benefits from different taxes and spending is important to understand how fiscal policy is affecting poverty and inequality in Jordan. This study traces how the Jordanian fiscal system affects...
This study assesses the distributional impacts of public expenditures and taxes on poverty and inequality in the Republic of Iraq. The analysis uses the Commitment to Equity methodology and is based on...
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards’ calendar for the period from September to November 2023, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings and briefings.
Ratings for the Third Public Sector Modernization Project for Armenia were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial. Some...
This paper examines the distributive and poverty reducing effects of Vietnam’s fiscal system in 2018. The paper looks at the incidence across the distribution and the effect of (direct and indirect) taxes...
To face a debt crisis, countries often implement various forms of fiscal consolidation policies aiming at addressing fiscal imbalances. This paper investigates how debt and fiscal consolidation could influence...
This paper takes stock of the legal provisions for federalism in Somalia. It assesses current relations between the FMS administrations and existing local governments. It also looks at the role of existing...
A large literature has documented that fiscal policy is procyclical in emerging markets and developing economies and acyclical/countercyclical in advanced economies. This paper analyzes fiscal procyclicality...
The Federalism Filter aims to provide a mechanism for World Bank Nepal country teams to systematically support and guide the design of future projects through the lens of federalism. Its of three pillars...
The Financial Governance Committee (FGC) provides the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) with a forum for dialogue and confidential advice on sensitive financial governance issues. The FGC’s role is purely...
The development objective of the Public Expenditures for Administrative Capacity Endurance (PEACE) in Ukraine is to contribute to sustaining the government administrative and service delivery capacity...
Economic shocks and crises typically lead to a sharp increase in government expenditure arrears with corrosive effects on the economy. In order to assess the evolution of government expenditure arrears...
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic introduced tremendous fiscal pressures for many countries, requiring additional spending to mitigate the health, economic, and social impacts of the pandemic while government...
Cilj je ovog izvješća dati pregled međunarodnih iskustava u vezi sa spajanjem lokalnih jedinica i udruživanjem općina kako bi se pružila potpora institucionalnoj reformi u Hrvatskoj kojoj je cilj rješavanje...
Croatia is a country with a high degree of municipal fragmentation, which has been consistently recognized as a weakness and one of the main problems of its intergovernmental fiscal system. This report...