Documents & Reports
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Measuring Untapped Revenue Potential in Developing Countries : Cross-Country Frontier and Panel Data Analysis (English)
Efforts aimed at supporting domestic revenue mobilization in developing countries are often designed and evaluated based on empirical indicators, such as revenue-to-GDP ratios, which capture differences...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9776 Document Date: September 15, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Naeher,Dominik,Narayanan,Raghavan
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An evaluative look behind the curtain : World Bank Group staff's early experience with the shared prosperity goal (English)
In 2013, the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank Group endorsed two ambitious goals: eliminating extreme poverty in the world by 2030 and boosting shared prosperity. The latter is defined as...
Report No.: WPS8293 Document Date: January 3, 2018 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smets,Lodewijk,Bogetic,Zeljko
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Association of World Bank policy lending with social development policies and institutions (English)
Do World Bank policy loans that are focused on social policy reform help improve social policies and institutions in borrower countries? To help answer this question, this paper provides new empirical...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8263 Document Date: November 28, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Smets,Lodewijk
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Putting your money where your mouth is : geographic targeting of World Bank projects to the bottom 40 percent (English)
The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8247 Document Date: November 20, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ohler,Hannes,Negre,Mario,Smets,Lodewijk,Massari,Renzo,Bogetic,Zeljko
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How does knowledge on public expenditures integrate with the design of development policy operations? (English)
Integration of knowledge with lending is an enduring theme in World Bank strategies at the corporate and country levels. It rests on the widely shared proposition that Bank lending instruments could be...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 97401 Document Date: May 27, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Bronfman Horovitz,Javier,Jayawickrama,Malathi S.,Klasnja,Marko,Mkrtchyan,Aghassi,Piattifuenfkirchen,Moritz Otto Maria Alfons,Selowsky,Marcelo,Torrence,Jesse
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Quality of macro-fiscal frameworks in development policy operations : IEG learning product (English)
The report is part of a series of learning products with limited objectives geared towards synthesizing existing knowledge as well as learning and gaining new insights into the factors that influence design...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 97628 Document Date: May 20, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Bronfmann, Javier,Jayawickrama,Malathi S.,Klasnja,Marko,Mkrtchyan,Aghassi,Piattifuenfkirchen,Moritz Otto Maria Alfons,Selowsky,Marcelo,Torrence,Jesse
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Fiscal policy issues in the aging societies (English)
Aging may be one of the most far-reaching processes defining the economic, fiscal, and social changes societies are likely to experience over the next 40 years. The demographic consequences of aging will...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 95266 Document Date: March 9, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Onder,Harun,Onal,Anil,Skrok,Emilia,Schwartz, Anita,Winkler-Seales,Hernan Jorge
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Brittle recovery : Blag oporavak (Bosnian)
This report covers economic developments, prospects, and policies in six South Eastern European countries (SEE6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. South East...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 87962 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Davies,Simon,Dadi,Abebe Adugna,Demukaj,Agim,Doemeland,Doerte,Hlivnjak,Sandra,Onal,Anil,Jukic,Suzana,Sestovic,Lazar,Madzarevic-Sujster,Sanja,Shijaku,Hilda,Shimbov,Bojan
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Brittle recovery (English)
This report covers economic developments, prospects, and policies in six South Eastern European countries (SEE6): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. South East...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 87962 Document Date: May 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Davies,Simon,Dadi,Abebe Adugna,Demukaj,Agim,Doemeland,Doerte,Hlivnjak,Sandra,Onal,Anil,Jukic,Suzana,Sestovic,Lazar,Madzarevic-Sujster,Sanja,Shijaku,Hilda,Shimbov,Bojan
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Trust and identity in a small, post-socialist, post-crisis society (English)
The principal focus in the substantial literature on impediments to economic development has been on the inadequacies of policies and governance. However, successful economic development requires effectiveness...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6828 Document Date: April 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bjornskov,Christian,Bogetic,Zeljko,Hillman,Arye L.,Popovic,Milenko
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Slow road to recovery (English)
The South East Europe (SEE6) region exited from recession in the first half of 2013, supported by a nascent recovery in the Euro area. Industry-especially manufacturing exports and energy drove the recovery...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 83136 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Dadi,Abebe Adugna
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Slow road to recovery : Rimekambja e ngadalte (Albanian)
The South East Europe (SEE6) region exited from recession in the first half of 2013, supported by a nascent recovery in the Euro area. Industry-especially manufacturing exports and energy drove the recovery...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 83136 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Dadi,Abebe Adugna
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Slow road to recovery : Spor put ka oporavku (Bosnian)
The South East Europe (SEE6) region exited from recession in the first half of 2013, supported by a nascent recovery in the Euro area. Industry-especially manufacturing exports and energy drove the recovery...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 83136 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Dadi,Abebe Adugna
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Slow road to recovery (Macedonian)
The South East Europe (SEE6) region exited from recession in the first half of 2013, supported by a nascent recovery in the Euro area. Industry-especially manufacturing exports and energy drove the recovery...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 83136 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Dadi,Abebe Adugna
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Slow road to recovery : Spor put ka oporavku (Serbian)
The South East Europe (SEE6) region exited from recession in the first half of 2013, supported by a nascent recovery in the Euro area. Industry-especially manufacturing exports and energy drove the recovery...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 83136 Document Date: December 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Andronova Vincelette,Gallina,Bogetic,Zeljko,Dadi,Abebe Adugna
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Drivers of firm-level productivity in Russia's manufacturing sector (English)
This note presents the results of an empirical analysis of firm-level productivity growth in Russia's manufacturing sector during the period 2003-08 using a rich Amadeus database as well as the recent...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6572 Document Date: August 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko,Olusi,Olasupo
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From double-dip recession to accelerated reforms : Od drugog talasa recesije ka ubrzanim reformama (Serbian)
After two years of fragile recovery from the global recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6) Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 74593 Document Date: December 18, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko
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From double-dip recession to accelerated reforms : Nga recesioni i dyfishte ne reforma te pershpejtuara (Albanian)
After two years of fragile recovery from the global recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6) Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 74593 Document Date: December 18, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko
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From double-dip recession to accelerated reforms (English)
After two years of fragile recovery from the global recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6) Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 74593 Document Date: December 18, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko
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From double-dip recession to accelerated reforms : Od drugog talasa recesije ka ubrzanim reformama (Bosnian)
After two years of fragile recovery from the global recession, as a group the six South East European countries (SEE6) Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH), Kosovo, FYR Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia...
Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 74593 Document Date: December 1, 2012 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bogetic,Zeljko