How do civil service management practices differ within and across governments? How do core attitudes of public servants—such as their motivation or satisfaction—differ within and across governments? Understanding...
A frontier challenge for development strategy is to move beyond prescribing optimal economic policies, and instead -- taking a broad view of the interactions between economic, political and social constraints...
There is now a growing understanding that economic, political, legal, and social institutions are essential to the economic success and failure of nations. Governance can be defined in various different...
This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public...
This book examines four major areas of institutional reform: a) political institutions and the state organization; b) fiscal institutions, such as budget, tax and decentralization institutions; c) public...
This development outreach newsletter includes some of the following headlines: special report, capacity and development. Capacity for development: guest editorial; by de Nevers, Michele, Leautier, Frannie...
The value of democracy; by Amartya Sen. The role of participation in development; by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Asian values and the current crisis; by Francis Fukuyama. The next stage of anti-corruption; by...