The World Bank Group has come a long way in supporting structural reforms in its member countries. The most remarkable feature of its long 35 years and continuing journey has been its ability to listen...
This report presents the main findings of the survey and is organized as follows: Chapter I details the sampling procedure and survey methodology employed. Chapter two gives an overview of the flow mechanism...
Poverty mapping is a statistical exercise to estimate the incidence of poverty at sub-national levels to enable the government, civil society organizations, and development partners to accurately identify...
Poverty mapping is a statistical exercise to estimate the incidence of poverty at sub-national levels to enable the government, civil society organizations, and development partners to accurately identify...
The study identifies strategic priorities for restoring sound public finances, emphasizing the need to maintain fiscal sustainability under a constrained budget, the need to improve the processes for making...
The note reviews the potential of public expenditure reviews as objective analysis of a country's public spending issues, and in advancing the development agenda in the Bank's client countries. It examines...
The note reviews the potential of public expenditure reviews as objective analysis of a country's public spending issues, and in advancing the development agenda in the Bank's client countries. It examines...
The note reviews the potential of public expenditure reviews as objective analysis of a country's public spending issues, and in advancing the development agenda in the Bank's client countries. It examines...
If a donor gives aid for a project that the recipient government would have undertaken anyway, the aid finances expenditures other than the intended project. The notion that aid in this sense may be "fungible"...
A foreign aid or foreign lending policy that focuses exclusively on project financing may have unintended consequences, report the authors. New research shows that aid intended for crucial social and economic...
Does Mercosur's trade performance raise concerns about the effects of regional trade agreements?, by Alexander J. Yeats. A panel data analysis of the fungibility of foreign aid, by Tarhan Feyzioglu, Vinaya...
The case of Lafrasia, a fictitious country, set in 1989, synthesizes the problems faced by a number of developing countries in public expenditure analysis. The two main objectives of the case are: a) to...
The case of Lafrasia, a fictitious country, set in 1989, synthesizes the problems faced by a number of developing countries in public expenditure analysis. The two main objectives of the case are: a) to...
The essays in this book grew out of background papers for World Development Report 1994, which focused on infrastructure and development. The first half of the book reviews the interplay of private initiative...
Using a model of aid fungibility, the authors examine the relationship between foreign aid and public spending. Based on a panel of cross-country and time-series data, their results show that roughly 75...
The public sector's performance in the Caribbean varies, in reducing poverty and in creating an enabling environment for growth. Barbados and the Bahamas have been the high performers, Guyana and the Dominican...