The aim of the case studies below is to help in think through some past experiences of governments and reform, as governments, countries, and people face the future. The examples discussed are not past applications of the Future of Government framework but seek to illustrate how lessons might be drawn for the framework to assist in the future.
Opinions presented in these case studies are solely those of the Future of Government Initiative and reflect neither official positions of the World Bank Group nor of the people, states, or other parties mentioned therein.
| Main theme | Case study | Country mentions |
| Crisis | In progress - Trends | Crises have set back development progress. How can governments build resilience? | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana |
| Delivery | In progress - Delivery in Tanzania | Tanzania |
| Delivery | In progress - Trends | What really happened to government capability? | Global |
| Delivery | Tools | Tools for the center of government | |
| Delivery | In progress - Tools | Reform teams | |
| Delivery | In progress - What does it take to make social registries effective? | Singapore, Togo |
| Delivery | In progress - Why does Vietnam’s education system work so well? Can anything be learned for other systems? | Vietnam, Lao, France, Germany, Finland, Honduras |
| Delivery, Trust | Freeing up resources through reform in Somalia | Somalia |
| Productivity | In progress - Behavioral insights can help make governments more productive, but context is key | Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana |
| Productivity | Increasing female labor force participation and power through procurement | Colombia |
| Productivity | Infrastructure - a sector ripe for government efficiencies | United States |
| Productivity | Community health workers and other disruptions in government | Mexico, Uganda |
| Productivity | In progress - Tools | New Technologies Enhance Government Productivity | Rwanda, Georgia, Cambodia |
| Productivity | In progress - Tools | Value for Money: A promising technique to identify pathways to improve government productivity | |
| Productivity | In progress - Tools | Successful Policy Design Can Be Messy. Smart Policy Design and Implementation Can Help | |
| Productivity, Role | In progress - Trends | Government revenue: realistic expectations and drivers of change | Global |
| Role | In progress - Trends | Social protection: its rise and its prospects | Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya |
| Role | In progress - Human capital progress – continuity, coordination, learning and resources | Liberia, Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines, Morocco, Ghana |
| Role | COVID-19 demonstrates how the private sector can collaborate with the state to help address crises | UK, Ghana, Malawi |
| Role, Delivery | Coalitions for Local Services in South Sudan | South Sudan |
| Role, Productivity | In progress - Industrial policy - what's possible, under what circumstances? | South Korea, China, Ghana, Tunisia, Uganda, Egypt |
| Trust | Boosting transparency of procurement and building citizen trust by using open contracting tools | Paraguay |
| Trust | In progress - Trends | Trends in trust | |
| Trust | Building trust in the education sector in Jordan | Jordan |