Research conducted at the World Bank Institute in Governance and Anti-corruption, often in collaboration with Bank Operations and/or outside academic institutions, contributes to the growing literature on the subject and is a key input to the learning products and action program formulation. The emphasis is on the concrete operationalization of new research findings, based on novel empirical approaches and a major effort to develop a worldwide database on governance indicators. The materials are organized as follows:

• NEW: Web-Interactive Inventory of Datasets and Empirical Tools

• NEW: Anti-Corruption and Governance Library

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