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  • The Lost Human Capital : Teacher Knowledge and Student Achievement in Africa (anglais)

    In many low-income countries, teachers do not master the subject they are teaching, and children learn little while attending school. Using unique data from nationally representative surveys of schools...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8849 Date du document: 7 mai 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bold,Tessa,Filmer,Deon P.,Molina,Ezequiel,Svensson,Jakob

  • Enrollment without learning : teacher effort, knowledge, and skill in primary schools in Africa (anglais)

    School enrollment has universally increased over the last 25 years in low-income countries. Enrolling in school, however, does not assure that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries...

    Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 122571 Date du document: 1 novembre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Martin,Gayle,Wane,Waly,Molina,Ezequiel,Stacy,Brian William,Svensson,Jakob,Filmer,Deon P.,Bold,Tessa,Rockmore,Christophe

  • What do teachers know and do ? does it matter ? evidence from primary schools in Africa (anglais)

    School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7956 Date du document: 26 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bold,Tessa,Filmer,Deon P.,Martin,Gayle,Molina,Ezequiel,Rockmore,Christophe,Stacy,Brian William,Svensson,Jakob,Wane,Waly

  • Information is power : experimental evidence on the long-run impact of community based monitoring (anglais)

    This paper presents the results of two field experiments on local accountability in primary health care in Uganda. Efforts to stimulate beneficiary control, coupled with the provision of report cards on...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7015 Date du document: 1 août 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Nyqvist, Martina Bjorkman,Svensson,Jakob,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.

  • Delivering service indicators in education and health in Africa : a proposal (anglais)

    The Delivering Service Indicators seek to provide a set of indices for benchmarking service delivery performance in education and health in Africa in order to track progress in and across countries over...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5327 Date du document: 1 juin 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bold,Tessa,Gauthier,Bernard P.,Svensson,Jakob,Wane,Waly

  • Survey techniques to measure and explain corruption (anglais)

    Reinikka and Svensson demonstrate that, with appropriate survey methods and interview techniques, it is possible to collect quantitative micro-level data on corruption. Public expenditure tracking surveys...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3071 Date du document: 30 juin 2003 Mode de publication: Auteur: Reinikka,Ritva S.,Svensson,Jakob

  • Survey tools for assessing service delivery (anglais)

    This paper is intended to guide those who wish to undertake the Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys/Quantitative Service Delivery Surveys (PETS/QSDS). The paper is organized as follows. Section 2 outlines...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 30342 Date du document: 1 juin 2002 Mode de publication: Auteur: Dehn,Jan,Reinikka,Ritva S.,Svensson,Jakob

  • Measuring and understanding corruption at the micro level (anglais)

    The literature has provided important insights on the aggregate determinants of corruption, but it also drawbacks. In particular, the use of perception indices raises concern about perception biases. Second...

    Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 28021 Date du document: 1 janvier 2002 Mode de publication: Auteur: Reinikka,Ritva S.,Svensson,Jakob

  • Who must pay bribes and how much? Evidence from a cross-section of firms (anglais)

    The author exploits a unique data set on corruption containing information about estimated bribe payments by Ugandan firms. To guide the empirical analysis, he develops a simple rent-extortion model, which...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2486 Date du document: 30 novembre 2000 Mode de publication: Auteur: Svensson,Jakob

  • How inadequate provision of public infrastructure and services affects private investment (anglais)

    Lack of private investment is a serious policy problem in many developing countries, especially in Africa. Despite recent structural reform and stabilization, the investment response to date has been mixed...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2262 Date du document: 31 décembre 1999 Mode de publication: Auteur: Reinikka,Ritva S.,Svensson,Jakob

  • Confronting competition - investment response and constraints in Uganda (anglais)

    Investment rates in Uganda are similar to others in Africa, - averaging slightly more than ten percent annually, with a median value of just under one percent. But the country's profit rates are considerably...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2242 Date du document: 30 novembre 1999 Mode de publication: Auteur: Reinikka,Ritva S.,Svensson,Jakob

  • What explains the success or failure of structural adjustment programs? (anglais)

    In the 1980s development assistance shifted largely from financing investments (such as roads and dams) to promoting policy reform. This change came because of a growing awareness that developing countries...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1938 Date du document: 30 juin 1998 Mode de publication: Auteur: Dollar,David R.,Svensson,Jakob

  • Foreign aid and rent-seeking (anglais)

    To address the relationship between concessional assistance, corruption, and other types of rent-seeking activities, the author provides a simple game-theoretic rent-seeking model. Insights with interesting...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1880 Date du document: 28 février 1998 Mode de publication: Auteur: Svensson,Jakob

  • When is foreign aid policy credible : aid dependence and conditionality (anglais)

    The author studies foreign aid policy within a principal-agent framework. He shows that one reason for foreign aid's poor overall record may be a moral hazard problem that shapes the aid recipient s incentive...

    Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS1740 Date du document: 31 mars 1997 Mode de publication: Auteur: Svensson,Jakob