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Audit l China to lead world's government auditors
27 November 2012 | audit, china, economic crisis, economic governance, fiscal transparencyChina is expected to lead government auditors across the world next year to respond to challenges in fiscal discipline and governance amid the financial crisis, the leader of a global audit...
Blogpost: Global Financial Inclusion Indicators
08 June 2012 | access-to-data, blogpost, commentary, data, economic governance, indicatorsIn a recent World Bank working paper, Measuring Financial Inclusion: The Global Findex Database, we provide the first analysis of the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) Database, a new set of...
Blogpost: Sovereign Wealth Funds: The Governance Challenge
14 May 2012 | correlation, economic governance, financial, private sector, proxy, wealth fundAs the world economy emerges from the rubble of the financial crisis, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have consolidated their position as relevant players in global financial markets and beyond....
Countries Fail at Regulating Money-in-Politics, Regardless of How Weak or Solid their Laws
17 April 2012 | economic governance, integrity, report, transparencyWashington D.C., Friday, March 30, 2012 – Regardless of how weak or sophisticated their political financing regulations are, countries around the world are equally failing to effectively regulate the...
Blogpost: PEFA Quality Assurance – Will the Check Bounce?
19 March 2012 | blogpost, commentary, economic governance, global initiative, pfmThe PEFA Program has recently announced a new “PEFA Check” (see the March 12 PFM blog post) mechanism to enhance the quality of PEFA assessment reports. This initiative was approved by the Steering...
The citizens’ debt audit
29 February 2012 | blogpost, citizen monitoring, debt, economic governance, europe, france, initiative, social accountabilityThe campaign for a citizens’ audit of the public debt is making headway. Following the success of the call for general mobilization, which attracted nearly 60,000 signatures, about a hundred...
Blogpost: Two ways of overcoming government failure (World Bank, 26 April 2011)
01 July 2011 | blogpost, commentary, economic governance, public opinionIn his blogpost "Two ways of overcoming government failure", World Bank Chief Economist for Africa Shanta Devarajan argues that the reasons for why the majority of the electorat in many poor...
Publication: The Methodology of Subnational Economic Governance Indices (Asia Foundation, 4 April 2011)
04 April 2011 | asia pacific, economic governance, methodology, publicationIn a just-released paper, The Asia Foundation’s Nina Merchant-Vega and University of California San Diego’s Edmund J. Malesky examine the unexpected effects and implications of pioneering Economic...
Launch: Doing Business 2011 (World Bank Group, 4 Nov 2010)
04 November 2010 | economic governance, global index, launchWorldwide, more than half the regulatory changes recorded in the past year eased business start-up, trade, and the payment of taxes. Many of the improvements involve new technologies. "New technology...
Launch: Doing Business 2010 (World Bank Group, 5 Oct 2010)
05 October 2010 | economic governance, global index, publication, reportThe World Bank Group’s Doing Business project provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional...