Legislatures in different countries play
a wide variety of different roles in the budget formulation
process. Legislatures require reliable, unbiased information
to...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80676Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Anderson, Barry ;
Johnson,John K. ;
Stapenhurst, F. Rick ;
Kiraso,Beatrice Birungi
The World Bank Institute (WBI) is a
global connector of knowledge, learning, and innovation for
development and poverty reduction. WBI’s climate change
practice focuses...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80682Date: January 1, 2015
The 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti wiped
out the nation’s housing infrastructure. Before the
Government of Haiti can begin major reconstruction, it
needed to shelter...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80681Date: January 1, 2015
Across the globe citizens are demanding
accountability and transparency from their governments.
Middle-income countries (MICs) in the Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Canada,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80672Date: January 1, 2015Author:
Bassat,Jose-Manuel
On June 9-11, 2011, the Ruder Boskovic
Institute of Croatia, the Korea Development Institute and
the World Bank organized a high-level policy workshop in
Dubrovnik,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 64505Date: December 1, 2011Author:
Agapitova, Natalia ;
Thacker, Simon ;
Chamlou, Nadereh
The study examines three programs: (1)
Korea Development Institute (KDI's) Knowledge Sharing
Program (KSP) for advancing export development in the
Dominican Republic;...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 66635Date: November 1, 2011Author:
Kim, JiHwan ;
Chun, Saebyul
A World Bank Institute (WBI) review of
194 WB operational projects with substantial capacity
development components revealed critical issues related to
the measurement...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80707Date: May 1, 2011Author:
Roberts,Dawn ;
Ling,Cristina Marosan
Capacity is the ability of individuals,
organizations, state institutions, coalitions, and society
itself to catalyze change to achieve their development
objectives....
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 64455Date: January 1, 2011
This guide emphasizes empowering local
agents through experiential learning with peers from their
own and other countries by following a strategic,
results-oriented...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 64506Date: January 1, 2011Author:
Badawy,Lina Tarek Mohamed ;
Einstein, Albert
This paper is about efforts to amend the
legal framework for the right to information, with a
particular focus on access to information (ATI) laws. It
looks at the main...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80702Date: January 1, 2011Author:
Mendel,Toby Daniel
Current research conducted from a
political science and law perspective has documented a broad
participation of the judiciary in the process of public
policy development,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80757Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Herrero,Alvaro Joaquín ;
Lopez, Gaspar
Urbanization is the defining phenomenon
of the 21st century. For the first time in history, more
than half of the world’s population lives in cities with 90
percent...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80748Date: January 1, 2010
On the basis of a detailed case study of
the government of Canada, this report examines how
management accountability processes operating within public
services may...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80760Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Thomas,Paul Griffith
External oversight agencies perform a
fundamental role in monitoring the exercise of power in
democratic regimes, especially in countries characterized by
high corruption...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80758Date: January 1, 2010Author:
Nino, Ezequiel
The Economic Development Institute
(EDI), in partnership with the University of Maryland
Business School conducted a core course on infrastructure
finance in Washington,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49425Date: August 1, 2009Author:
Dailami, Mansoor
One of the major challenges facing the
international development community is creating a capacity
development (CD) architecture built on solid evidence. In
this CD brief,...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 92591Date: June 1, 2009Author:
Awimbo, Janet ;
Nelson,Mark ;
Theisohn, Thomas
Efforts to develop capacity are being
hindered by disparate methodologies, insufficient focus on
outcomes and indicators, and a lack of concrete results to
show improved...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 92590Date: April 1, 2009Author:
Agapitova,Natalia ;
Fisher,Sharon Beth ;
Gold,Jenny R. ;
Otoo,Samuel K. E.
In response to a growing demand for
evidence of effectiveness, scalability, and accountability
in international development initiatives, the international
development...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 92589Date: February 1, 2009Author:
Bloom,Evan Jonah ;
Leonard,Aaron ;
Reeves, Matt
This paper analyzes the budgeting
implications of implementation of access to information
(ATI) legislation in Mexico. Any policy process is
characterized by adoption...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 49156Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Hernandez-Valdez, Alfonso;
Between 1997-2008, the World Bank
Institute’s flagship program on health sector reform and
sustainable financing delivered 319 short-term training
events to more than...
Type: WBI Working PaperReport#: 80763Date: January 1, 2009Author:
Shaw,R. Paul ;
Samaha,Hadia Nazem
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