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Environmental and Gender Impacts of Land Tenure Regularization in Africa:Pilot Evidence from Rwanda
Article / Working Paper, Governance and Gender, Land Governance, DonorAlthough recent developments have increased interest in African land tenure, Rwanda’s nation-wide Land Tenure Regularization (LTR) program is one of a few models to address these issues at the required scale. A rigorous empirical analysis that is used to evaluate the pilot for this program highlights four main effects; namely, (i) significant and large investment impacts that are particularly...
Assessing Governance, Staff Guidance Note on the Governance Rating of the Bank’s Country Performance Assessment
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe purpose of this note is to provide guidance to Bank staff on the sources of evidence available to inform the assessment of the governance rating and thereby reduce the scope for subjectivity of the annual CPA exercise. It is designed in particular for Country Economists responsible for the coordination of the CPA exercise, undertaken each year. It aims at enhancing the objectivity, quality,...
Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa
DonorMost assessments of the business climate for women look at regulations, availability of credit, and similar features of the economy. They overlook the areas of the law this book examines: marriage, divorce, inheritance, land rights, and labor. But these are the laws that determine who has control over assets, thereby influencing the types of economic opportunities that are available. Men and...
Matching reforms to institutional realities : a framework for assessing social service delivery reform strategies in developing countries
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThe paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully-considered institutional "fitting" process as opposed to transplantation of "international best practices." The paper asks how the specific institutional contexts of a given country limit options for service delivery reforms, and therefore how a feasible set of reform options may vary...
How close is your government to its people? worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThis paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution of the last three decades on moving governments closer to people to establish fair, accountable, incorruptible and responsive governance. To accomplish this, a unique data set is constructed for 182 countries by compiling data from a wide variety of sources to examine success toward decentralized decision...
Identification and Quantification of the Proceeds of Bribery
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorThis study conducted by the OECD and the World Bank analyses the identification and quantification of the proceeds of active bribery in international business transactions. Active bribery is defined as the “…criminal offence committed by paying, offering or promising a bribe or an undue advantage to an official”. The authors contend that while international efforts thus far has put a lot of...
Financial inclusion in Africa : an overview (English)
DonorThis paper summarizes financial inclusion across Africa. First, it provides a brief overview of the African financial sector landscape. Second, it uses the Global Financial Inclusion Indicators (Global Findex) database to characterize adults in Africa
Guide to Gender Sensitive Indicators
DonorThe aim of this Guide is to promote conceptual and methodological understanding of indicators, with special emphasis on gender-sensitive indicators and offer suggestions and guidance for use of gender-sensitive indicators, with a particular focus on projects with an end-user focus. Annex 1 Definitions of key terms Annex 2 Criteria for the selection of indicators Annex 3 Examples of Region/...
Building Better Policies: The Nuts and Bolts of Monitoring and Evaluation
Book, Inter-Governmental Organization, Donor[...] This book is useful to anyone who cares about the quality of public policies and who wants to learn and understand how public policies and programs can be shaped with the objective of improving people’s welfare. You might be interested in setting development goals and specific targets for development outcomes for a specific country, province, city, or sectoral entity, and in the techniques...
The worldwide governance indicators and tautology : causally related separable concepts, indicators of a common cause, or both ?
Article / Working Paper, Inter-Governmental Organization, DonorAggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in aid policy. Few studies examine the validity of these indexes, however. This paper partially fills this gap by examining empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide Governance Indicators. The six indexes purportedly measure distinct concepts of control of corruption, rule of...