Cambodia is one of the world's most open economies, sustaining high levels of growth in an environment of relatively weak governance. Emerging from a legacy of genocide and civil conflict, the country...
Well-governed countries is better able to formulate growth-enhancing policies, deliver essential services to the poor, and regulate financial and product markets. The appeal of governance reform and the...
As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for "innovative" or alternative sources of Official Development Assistance to help finance achievement of the Millennium Development...
As early as 2000, development partners embarked on a decade-long search for 'innovative' or alternative sources of official development assistance to help finance achievement of the millennium development...
This paper discusses the notion that the design of monitoring systems in decentralized settings is inextricably linked to the design of intergovernmental fiscal instruments. In South Africa, the consolidation...
This sourcebook was written to assist low-income countries with the development and strengthening of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been designed as a resource for analysis and discourse...
This sourcebook was written to assist low-income countries with the development and strengthening of their poverty reduction strategies. This book has been designed as a resource for analysis and discourse...
This paper highlights critical problems of scaling up, aggregation, and attribution that complicate country-level evaluations of Institutional Development (ID) impact. In attempting to address some of...
The report is based on the findings of a pilot team, who in searching for a better understanding of the evolving decentralization process in Ethiopia, collected quantitative, and perception data on the...
World Development Report 1997: The State in a Changing World (report no. 17300) argued that institutions-the rules of the game that govern production and exchange-shape a country's prospects for sustained...