This report presents: utility
assessment: analyze where the utility stands today and its
desired level of maturity in the future; 100-day action plan
guide: challenge...
This paper has been prepared as part of
the Papua New Guinea (PNG) public financial management (PFM)
and sub-national service delivery scoping activity. The
activity...
Success in the roll out of the
Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination program requires that
large numbers of people get the vaccine, quickly, equitably,
and effectively....
Type: ReportReport#: 159953Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Gurazada,Srinivas ;
Anderson,James ;
Wickramasinghe,Jiwanka B. ;
Narula,Rajat ;
Koteiche,Rima Abdul-Amir ;
Bernstein,David S. ;
Recanatini,Francesca ;
Hammer,Craig ;
La Cascia,Joseph Huntington ;
Warzecha,Iwona ;
Umah Tete,Patrick Piker ;
Balduino De Oliveira,Fernanda ;
Farooq,Khuram ;
Davenport,Stephen R. ;
Yilmaz,Serdar ;
Goje,Saidu Dani ;
Siess,Katherine Elizabeth Wolff
The objectives of Regulatory Watch
Initiative (RWI) is to strengthen digital development
through data driven and best practice market regulation, to
identify optimal...
Type: ReportReport#: 160701Date: April 30, 2021Author:
Srivastava,Lara ;
Bezzina,Jerome ;
Jacquinot,Olivier Stephane Andre
A Financial Management Information
System (FMIS) plays a central role as the budget management
tool of the government, and hence it is key to sound public
financial...
Emerging technology curation series aims
to capture and share Korea experience and lessons learned in
regard to exploration and adoption of emerging technologies
like...
Type: ReportReport#: 158475Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Soh,Hoon Sahib ;
Goyal,Sameer ;
Khoury,Zaki Badie ;
Kim,Kevin Yunil ;
Karacaoglu,Yusuf ;
Mocan,Stela ;
Shin,Ji Ho ;
Park,Jinhee
Complexities surround the relationships
between the public and private sectors that fundamentally
influence the provision of hydromet informationand services.
This technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 158504Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Rogers, David P. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Suwa,Makoto
The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred
interest in the use of remote data collection techniques,
including phone surveys, in developing country contexts.
This interest has...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9636Date: April 20, 2021Author:
Abay,Kibrom A. ;
Berhane,Guush ;
Hoddinott,John ;
Hirfrfot,Kibrom Tafere
Today’s unprecedented growth
of data and their ubiquity in our lives are signs that the
data revolution is transforming the world. And yet much of
the value of...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 157695Date: April 19, 2021Author:
Foster,Vivien ;
Cull,Robert J. ;
Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell
Public finances are a central component
of state-building and peace-building efforts. Public
financial management (PFM) has become a primary area of
donor engagement...
Type: ReportReport#: 158170Date: April 15, 2021Author:
Fritz,Verena Maria ;
Fialho Lopes,Ana Paula ;
Hedger,Edward James ;
Tavakoli,Heidi ;
Krause,Philipp
This paper evaluates the performance of
different small area estimation methods using model and
design-based simulation experiments. Design-based simulation
experiments...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9620Date: April 12, 2021Author:
Corral Rodas,Paul Andres ;
Kastelic,Kristen Himelein ;
Mcgee,Kevin Robert ;
Molina,Isabel
Fraud and corruption may impede economic
growth, exacerbate income inequality, increase the cost of
government services, lower trust in government, and increase
political...
Why do more small firms in developing
countries not use the market for professional business
services like accounting, marketing, and human resource
specialists? Two...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9614Date: April 6, 2021Author:
Anderson,Stephen J. ;
Mckenzie,David J.
Costa Rica’s national climate change
metrics system (sistema nacional de metrica de cambio
climatico, SINAMECC) is Costa Rica’s official platform to
coordinate climate...
Pakistan started preparing for vaccine
registration and deployment in January 2021. The country
decided to deploy the vaccinations at selected health
facilities which...
This study explores the far-reaching
economic consequences of the archipelagic geography of most
Pacific Island countries (PICs). The dispersion of
populations across...
Type: ReportReport#: 157855Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Utz,Robert Johann ;
Butcher-Gollach,Colleen ;
Craig,David ;
Dornan,Matthew Selwyn ;
Edwards,Kim Alan ;
Halstead,Imogen Cara ;
Hasanov,Rashad ;
Horscroft,Virginia Ann ;
Naidoo,Darian ;
Piatkov,Veronica ;
Saldivar-Sali,Artessa ;
Shi,Stone ;
Xia,Boer
This brief presents initial findings
from an ongoing phone survey of families in Punjab, Pakistan
designed to assess what is happening to girls’ elementary
school education...
The outbreak of Coronavirus disease 2019
(Covid-19) has accelerated efforts by practitioners to
rapidly move learning, skills building, and mentoring
online. Practitioners...
Type: BriefReport#: 158369Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Ritter,Frederic Leon ;
Singh,Sunamika ;
Datta,Namita
This note proposes a high-level
framework to assess challenges and policy options to
enabling private sector-led investment in 5G connectivity in
emerging markets. 5G...
Type: BriefReport#: 159249Date: April 1, 2021Author:
Houngbonon,Georges Vivien ;
Rossotto,Carlo Maria ;
Strusani,Davide
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