Documents et rapports

Minding the Gap : Aid Effectiveness, Project Ratings and Contextualization (anglais)

This paper applies novel techniques to long-standing questions of aid effectiveness. It first replicates findings that donor finance is discernibly but weakly associated with sector outcomes in recipient...

Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (anglais)

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank...

World Bank Group Research Newsletter (February 2020) (anglais)

The February newsletter highlights new approaches to fighting corruption via three case studies: Tunisia under Ben Ali, customs in Madagascar, and financial flows into offshore financial centers known...

Yemen Private Sector Cluster : Engaging the Private Sector in Decision Making, Humanitarian and R and R efforts – Policy Memo (anglais)

This policy memo outlines the main points raised and discussed by the representatives ofthe Yemeni private sector in a meeting that was held in Amman on 27th January, 2019. Themeeting was a follow up of...

Afghanistan - AF: ARTF-Public Fin. Mgmt. Reform II (anglais)

Learning from experiences with implementation and financing of recovery and peacebuilding assessments : 1999–2017 (anglais)

The 2008 Joint Declaration on Post-Crisis Assessments and Recovery Planning envisions a common platform for action for the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and the World Bank. The most prominent...

Afghanistan - Country Partnership Framework for the period FY17-FY20 : chair summary (anglais)

In this meeting Executive Directors discussed the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Afghanistan for FY17-FY20. Directors welcomed the progress that has been achieved in Afghanistan and the government’s...

Shoeing the Children : the impact of the TOMS Shoe donation program in rural El Salvador (anglais)

The study uses a cluster-randomized trial among 1,578 children from 979 households in rural El Salvador to test the impacts of TOMS shoe donations on children's time allocation, school attendance, health...

Burundi - Eigth Economic Reform Support Grant : chair summary (anglais)

Strengthening public financial management : exploring drivers and effects (anglais)

This paper explores two relationships, first between country characteristics and the quality of public financial management ('drivers'), and second between the quality of public financial management systems...

What factors predict how public sector projects perform ? a review of the World Bank's public sector management portfolio (anglais)

This paper uses regression analysis to identify which country context, reform content, process, and project management variables predict the performance of public sector management projects, as measured...

Serbian - Free legal aid fiscal impact analysis : volume, costs, and alternatives (anglais)

A major element in the design of a legal aid system is its fiscal viability. This requires that important decisions be made regarding the scale and scope of public access to legal aid. That is, critical...

Government spending multipliers in developing countries : evidence from lending by official creditors (anglais)

The author uses a novel loan-level dataset covering lending by official creditors to developing country governments to construct an instrument for government spending. These loans typically finance multiyear...

Building or bypassing recipient country systems : are donors defying the Paris declaration ? (anglais)

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. It also calls for donors to be more responsive to the quality of...

Making public sector reforms work : political and economic contexts, incentives, and strategies (anglais)

Supporting effective public sector reform is a major challenge that the World Bank and other agencies and stakeholders have been grappling with. It is increasingly recognized that political economy factors...

Government spending multipliers in developing countries : evidence from lending by official creditors (anglais)

This paper uses a novel loan-level dataset covering lending by official creditors to developing country governments to construct an instrument for public spending that can be used to estimate government...

Afghanistan in Transition : Looking Beyond 2014 (Vol. 2 of 3) : Main Report (anglais)

Afghanistan will experience a major security and development transition over the next three years. At the Kabul and Lisbon Conferences in 2010, NATO and the Afghan government agreed that full responsibility...

When do donors trust recipient country systems ? (anglais)

The 2005 Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness sets targets for increased use by donors of recipient country systems for managing aid. The target is premised on a view that country systems are strengthened...

Strengthening public financial management in post-conflict countries (anglais)

Understanding how to rebuild resilient states in post-conflict countries is an urgent priority for the international community. A new cross-country study of public financial management reforms in post-conflict...

Kiribati - Country assistance strategy : chairman's summing up (anglais)