Documents et rapports
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Money versus Kudos : The Impact of Incentivizing Local Politicians in India (anglais)
Despite growing awareness of the various limitations of electoral democracy, there is a relative lack of evidence on effective policy interventions to improve the performance of elected officials and motivate...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10186 Date du document: 19 septembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mansuri,Ghazala,Palaniswamy,Nethra,Rao,Vijayendra,Shrestha,Slesh Anand
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If politics is the problem, how can external actors be part of the solution ? (anglais)
Despite a large body of research and evidence on the policies and institutions needed to generate growth and reduce poverty, many governments fail to adopt these policies or establish the institutions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7761 Date du document: 25 juillet 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti
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Making politics work for development : harnessing transparency and citizen engagement (anglais)
Too often, government leaders fail to adopt and implement policies that they know are necessary for sustained economic development. They are encumbered by adverse political incentives, which prevent them...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 106337 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Khemani,Stuti,Dal Bó, Ernesto,Ferraz,Claudio,Finan,Frederico Shimizu,Stephenson Johnson,Corinne Louise,Odugbemi,Adesinaola Michael,Thapa,Dikshya,Abrahams,Scott David
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Evaluation of the Infrastructure Development Collaboration Partnership Fund (DevCo), a Private Infrastructure Development Group Facility (PIDG) (anglais)
The Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) engaged Castalia and Dr. Dieter Falk to evaluate one of its facilities: the Infrastructure Development Collaboration Partnership Fund (DevCo). DevCo’s...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 116562 Date du document: 30 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Donchev,Dilyan
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Can civil society overcome government failure in Africa? (anglais)
Government failures are widespread in Africa. Symptoms include absentee teachers, leakage of public funds, monopolized trucking, and employment-restricting regulations. Can civil society do anything about...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 112508 Date du document: 10 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti,Walton, Michael
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Knowledge Change Program (KCP) perspectives : putting knowledge to work (vol. 2, no. 2) (anglais)
This newsletter is about Knowledge Change Program (KCP) funded projects that has contributed to some policy reforms and changes in countries and has been a catalyst for development. It has the following...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 114261 Date du document: 1 avril 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Localizing development : does participation work? (anglais)
This new research report analyzes community development and decentralization projects, shows that such projects often fail to be sensitive to complex contexts, including social, political, historical and...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 73762 Date du document: 15 novembre 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mansuri,Ghazala,Rao,Vijayendra
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Bank governance (anglais)
Principles of good governance have been a major component of international financial standards and are seen as essential to the stability and integrity of financial systems. Over the past 10 years much...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 53771 Date du document: 1 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ard,Laura A.,Berg,Alexander S.
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Public-private partnership units : lessons for their design and use in infrastructure (anglais)
This report originated as part of a joint initiative between the Public Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) and the East Asia and Pacific Sustainable Development Department of the World Bank...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 43139 Date du document: 1 octobre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed
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Designing and using public-private partnership units in infrastructure : Lessons from case studies around the world (anglais)
This note contends that public-private partnership (PPP) units for facilitating and managing infrastructure investments have existed for years in many developed countries. Driven in part by growing infrastructure...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 41702 Date du document: 1 septembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Hankinson,Denzel J.,Sanghi,Apurva,Sundakov,Alexander
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Local governance in industrial countries (anglais)
Local government refers to specific institutions or entities created by national constitutions (Brazil, Denmark, France, India, Italy, Japan, Sweden), by state constitutions (Australia, the United States)...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 36809 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Shah,Anwar M.
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Anti-corruption policies and programs : a framework for evaluation (anglais)
The anti-corruption strategy the World Bank announced in September 1997 defined corruption as the "use of public office for private gain" and called for the Bank to address corruption along four dimensions:...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2501 Date du document: 31 décembre 2000 Auteur: Huther, Jeff,Shah, Anwar
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World Bank support for industrialization in Korea, India, and Indonesia (anglais)
The Bank's approach to industrialization has changed over time. Through the 1950s and much of the 1960s, the Bank took for granted industrialization strategies based on import substitution. During the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 10651 Date du document: 31 mai 1992