This paper explores the links among natural disasters, climate change, and economic development. It attempts to outline a framework for thinking about these links. The paper summarizes the limited knowledge...
The Bank has made significant efforts since the mid-1990s to highlight the harmful effect of corruption on development and has developed a number of mechanisms to help countries improve governance and...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
报告主要探讨政府的作用及其有效性:在飞速发展变化的世界中它应该做什么,如何去做,以及如何才能做得更好。报告从两方面对政府改革提供了指导性框架:关注于使政府的行动与其能力相适应;在一段时间内寻找各种方法以通过重振公共机构的活力来提高政府能力。报告从世界各国政府和政府改革的成功和不成功事例中,对不同起点的国家提出了这两部分的战略以及如何去实施战略。
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
This is the twentieth in the annual series assessing major development issues. The report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what it should do, how it should do it, and how it can improve...
Policy-makers in developing countries who try to reduce external debt are engaged in a complicated balancing act. Domestic spending programs could be curtailed to free up funds for the repayment of debt...
The papers in this volume are divided into eight broad and interrelated topics that concern African economic reform : exchange rate policy, parallel markets, fiscal deficits and expenditure policy, financial...
This book assesses the experience of countries with adjustment programs and the effectiveness of adjustment lending from the World Bank in supporting these programs. It takes an inventory of the decade...
This paper provides an analytical and selective empirical survey of inflation in sub-Saharan Africa. It begins with an empirical assessment of inflation in Africa using various price indicators, and then...
This paper discusses the following issues regarding the pace of private domestic investment, its prospects for recovery, and its role in adjustment programs of developing countries: (a) the relationship...
Devaluation affects investment because of its effect on the real supply price of capital goods; the real price of imported inputs, w���������������hich together with capital goods are used to produce output;...
This paper presents a theoretical framework to analyze the issue of exchange rate reform in the presence of parallel markets. In Ghana, which has carried out one of the most thorough structural adjustment...
Despite external shocks, Indonesia has maintained creditworthiness through swift adjustment. Indonesia's flexible economic management and clear policy signals have lent stability to the economy, in contrast...
A recent World Bank study examined the performance of adjustment programs, evaluation policy reforms, and assessed the design and implementation of adjustment operations. The results reaffirm the rationale...
Inflation always has a monetary dimension, but managing inflation is not a simple question of monetary management. Other factors to contend with are the indexation process (including policies on wage and...