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The Economics of Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa : Institutional Solutions - Overview (Английский)
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is facing an acute lack of water for life and livelihoods. Despite significant infrastructure investments over the past decades, countries in the region are...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 181559 Дата подготовки документа: 17 апреля 2023 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: De Waal,Dominick Revell,Khemani,Stuti,Barone,Andrea,Borgomeo,Edoardo
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The Economics of Water Scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa : Institutional Solutions (Английский)
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is facing an acute lack of water for life and livelihoods. Despite significant infrastructure investments over the past decades, countries in the region are...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 181559 Дата подготовки документа: 17 апреля 2023 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: De Waal,Dominick Revell,Khemani,Stuti,Barone,Andrea,Borgomeo,Edoardo
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Building State Capacity : What Is the Impact of Development Projects ? (Английский)
Although research has established the importance of state capacity in economic development, less is known about how state capacity comes about and the role of external partners in the process. This paper...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS9875 Дата подготовки документа: 8 декабря 2021 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Di Maro,Vincenzo,Evans,David K.,Khemani,Stuti,De Gouvea Scot De Arruda,Thiago
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Learning Review : World Bank Water Sector Technical Assistance to Iraq FY19-21 : Learning Review : World Bank Water Sector Technical Assistance to Iraq FY19-21 (Английский)
This note provides background and context to the World Bank’s technical assistance (TA) to the water sector in Iraq over the past three years. It is structured as a water sector learning review. This is...
Типу документа: Рабочие документы Номер отчета: AUS0002015 Дата подготовки документа: 24 декабря 2020 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: De Waal,Dominick Revell,Mofid,Nafie Mohammed,Talbi,Amal,Gates,Luke Hart,Tammaa,Waad,Bakalian,Alexandre Edouard,Alex,Khemani,Stuti,Borgomeo,Edoardo,Jagerskog,Lars Anders,Hamid,Mohamad
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An Opportunity to Build Legitimacy and Trust in Public Institutions in the Time of COVID-19 (Английский)
Legitimacy in the time of COVID-19 can be understood as the ability of leaders to win compliance with new public health orders because people share a widespread belief that everyone is complying. This...
Типу документа: Краткие сведения Номер отчета: 148256 Дата подготовки документа: 4 мая 2020 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti
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Strengthening Public Health Systems : Policy Ideas from a Governance Perspective (Английский)
Public health systems that are capable of disease surveillance and action to prevent and manage outbreaks require trustworthy community-embedded public health workers who are empowered to undertake their...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS9220 Дата подготовки документа: 23 апреля 2020 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti,Chaudhary,Sarang,Scot,Thiago
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What Is State Capacity ? (Английский)
Reform leaders who want to pursue technically sound policies are confronted with the problem of getting myriad government agencies, staffed by thousands of bureaucrats and state personnel, to deliver...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS8734 Дата подготовки документа: 11 февраля 2019 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti
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Political Selection and Bureaucratic Productivity (Английский)
Economic theory of public bureaucracies as complex organizations predicts that bureaucratic productivity can be shaped by the selection of different types of agents, beyond their incentives. This theory...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS8673 Дата подготовки документа: 12 декабря 2018 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Habyarimana,James Paul,Khemani,Stuti,Scot,Thiago
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Political economy of reform (Английский)
This paper reviews the literature relevant to understanding political constraints to economic reforms. Reform refers to changes in government policies or institutional rules because status quo policies...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS8224 Дата подготовки документа: 23 октября 2017 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti
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Demand and supply curves in political markets : understanding the problem of public goods and why governments fail them (Английский)
This paper brings the economic tools of demand and supply curves to better understand how political markets shape the selection of government policies. It does so to tackle a problem at the intersection...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS8213 Дата подготовки документа: 10 октября 2017 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti
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If politics is the problem, how can external actors be part of the solution ? (Английский)
Despite a large body of research and evidence on the policies and institutions needed to generate growth and reduce poverty, many governments fail to adopt these policies or establish the institutions...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS7761 Дата подготовки документа: 25 июля 2016 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti
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Making politics work for development : harnessing transparency and citizen engagement (Английский)
Too often, government leaders fail to adopt and implement policies that they know are necessary for sustained economic development. They are encumbered by adverse political incentives, which prevent them...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 106337 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2016 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti,Dal Bó, Ernesto,Ferraz,Claudio,Finan,Frederico Shimizu,Stephenson Johnson,Corinne Louise,Odugbemi,Adesinaola Michael,Thapa,Dikshya,Abrahams,Scott David
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The government response to informed citizens : new evidence on media access and the distribution of public health benefits in Africa (Английский)
The authors use a natural experiment in media markets in Benin to examine the impact of community radio on government responsiveness to citizens. Contrary to prior research on the impact of mass media...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 129186 Дата подготовки документа: 6 августа 2015 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Keefer,Philip E.,Khemani,Stuti
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Radio's impact on preferences for patronage benefits (Английский)
Citizens in developing countries support politicians who provide patronage or clientelist benefits, such as government jobs and gifts at the time of elections. Can access to mass media that broadcasts...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS6932 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июня 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Keefer,Philip E.,Khemani,Stuti
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The World Bank research observer 29 (1) (Английский)
The World Bank Research Observer is intended for anyone who has a professional interest in development. Observer articles are written to be accessible to nonspecialist readers; contributors examine key...
Типу документа: Публикации Номер отчета: 113056 Дата подготовки документа: 1 февраля 2014 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Knight,John,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti,Walton,Michael,Mckenzie,David J.,Woodruff,Christopher Marshall,Das Gupta,Monica,Canuto,Otaviano,Pinto,Brian R.,Prasad,Mona
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Can civil society overcome government failure in Africa? (Английский)
Government failures are widespread in Africa. Symptoms include absentee teachers, leakage of public funds, monopolized trucking, and employment-restricting regulations. Can civil society do anything about...
Типу документа: Журнальная статья Номер отчета: 112508 Дата подготовки документа: 10 октября 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti,Walton, Michael
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Pitfalls of participatory programs: evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India (Английский)
This brief summarizes the results of a gender impact evaluation study, entitled Pitfalls of participatory programs: evidence from a randomized evaluation in education in India, conducted in between September...
Типу документа: Краткие сведения Номер отчета: 81402 Дата подготовки документа: 14 августа 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Banerjee,Abhijit,Banerji,Rukmini,Duflo,Esther Caroline,Glennerster,Rachel,Khemani,Stuti
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Buying votes vs. supplying public services : political incentives to under-invest in pro-poor policies (Английский)
This paper uses unique survey data to provide, for the first time in the literature, direct evidence that vote buying in poor economies is associated with lower provision of public services that disproportionately...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS6339 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2013 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Khemani,Stuti
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Do informed citizens receive more...or pay more ? the impact of radio on the government distribution of public health benefits (Английский)
The government provision of free or subsidized bed nets to combat malaria in Benin allows the identification of new channels through which mass media affect public policy outcomes. Prior research has concluded...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS5952 Дата подготовки документа: 1 января 2012 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Keefer,Philip E.,Khemani,Stuti
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Civil society, public action and accountability in Africa (Английский)
This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development...
Типу документа: Рабочий документ в рамках исследования вопросов политики Номер отчета: WPS5733 Дата подготовки документа: 1 июля 2011 года Тип раскрытия информации: Disclosed Автор: Devarajan,Shantayanan,Khemani,Stuti,Walton,Michael