Public procurement in North Macedonia amounted to 16 percent of total government expenditure in 2018, or 5 percent of gross domestic product. The country’s public procurement is also vulnerable to corruption...
Although green public procurement has been established as a desirable policy goal across the globe, especially in the European Union, its scope and impacts remain severely understudied. This paper provides...
Durante los últimos diez años, los investigadores se han venido enfocando cada vez más en el vínculo entre la mala gobernanza, la corrupción y el crecimiento económico. La evidencia entre países ha demostrado...
The Armenia public sector accountability survey is instrumental in addressing the disparities between de jure laws and regulations and de facto practices and seeks to fill existing knowledge gaps and inform...
A large body of literature studies the relationship between corruption and economic outcomes, including government revenue mobilization, but there is little evidence on how this relationship changes during...
Corruption poses a significant threat to development and has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable. Government agencies struggle to identify fraud and corruption in public expenditures...
Asset recovery seeks to deprive corrupt individuals from benefiting from their crimes, deter future corruption, and return stolen assets to their rightful owners or compensate victims of corruption, including...
In light of Panama’s exposure to foreign money laundering (ML) risks, its recent inclusion in the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “grey list”, and reforms adopted by the government, this Technical Note...
Information communication technology (ICT) contracts are prone to fraud, corruption, bid rigging and collusion. The OECD foreign bribery report which shows that in 2014, 10 percent of the foreign bribery...
The purpose of this study is to provide policy makers with an overview of Unexplained wealth order (UWO) systems by placing them in the context of other asset recovery tools and drawing lessons for countries...
Persistent corruption and the insufficient results of asset recovery efforts compel countries to search for more effective ways to counteract the loss of much needed resources. The importance of asset...
The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will seek to assess how well the Bank Group–supported strategy was aligned with Georgia’s main development challenges and how effective the Bank Group’s support was...
Several countries have in recent years introduced the unexplained wealth order (UWO) as a tool to improve recoveries of the proceeds of crime—particularly kleptocracy, the fruits of corruption by government...
These were the remarks delivered by World Bank Group President David Malpass at the 2022 International Anti-Corruption Conference on December 6, 2022. He spoke about corruption that presents a major threat...
Ratings for the Citizens’ Charter Afghanistan Project (CCAP) for Afghanistan were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and...
In September 2022, Jeff Thindwa was interviewed by Elisa Liberatori Prati. Jeff discusses on: his prior Bank experience; his protest against the Bank policies to working for the Bank; relationship between...
This paper studies the relationship between distortions, plant size, and bribery possibilities. In a distorted economy, bribery is a transfer from a private party to government officials to ‘get things...
Colombia tiene un desempeño inferior al de los países de altos ingresos en la mayoría de las dimensiones de la gobernanza. La calidad de la gobernanza y las instituciones se ha mantenido prácticamente...
Supporting client countries in building an open and accountable public sector that serves the needs of all citizens is core to economic development. Within any public sector, there are specific institutions...