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  • Limited access orders in the developing world :a new approach to the problems of development (English)

    The upper-income, advanced industrial countries of the world today all have market economies with open competition, competitive multi-party democratic political systems, and a secure government monopoly...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4359 Document Date: September 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: North,Douglass C.,Wallis,John Joseph,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Weingast,Barry R.

  • Mexico - Decentralized service delivery for the poor (Vol. 1 of 2) : Core report (English)

    This report on the decentralized service delivery for the poor is structured in two volumes. Volume one is a cross-sectoral report, the core report. The first part includes the program and performance...

    Document Type: Other Poverty Study Report No.: 35692 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C.,Webb,Steven Benjamin

  • Achievements and challenges of fiscal decentralization : lessons from Mexico (English)

    This book documents Mexico's decentralization experience as well as conceptualizing its main trends, policies, and options, and brings them into the light of international comparison. It focuses on what...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 20563 Document Date: May 31, 2000 Disclosure Status: Author: Guigale, Marcelo M. [editor],Webb,Steven Benjamin,Lafourcade,Olivier,Vinh Nguyen,Rojas,Fernando,Courchene,Thomas J.,Martinez-Vazquez,Jorge,McLure, Charles E., Jr.,Diaz-Cayeros, Alberto,Mendoze, Enrique Cabrero,Hernandez Trillo,Fausto,Oliveira, Joao C.

  • Beyond the center - decentralizing the State (English)

    The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.

  • Beyond the center - decentralizing the State : Mas alla del centro - la descentralizacion del estado (Spanish)

    The study focuses on decentralization, referring to the process of returning the political, fiscal, and administrative powers, to sub-national units of government. It examines the decentralization transformation...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 19636 Document Date: July 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Burki,Shahid Javed,Perry,Guillermo,Dillinger,William R.,Griffin,Charles C.,Gutman,Jeffrey S.,Rojas,Fernando,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Winkler,Donald R.

  • Fiscal management in federal democracies : Argentina and Brazil (English)

    In shifting to decentralized public finances, a country's central government faces certain fiscal management problems. First, during and soon after the transition, unless it reduces pending or increases...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2121 Document Date: May 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dillinger,William R.,Webb,Steven Benjamin

  • Decentralization and fiscal management in Colombia (English)

    Colombia's political geography contrasts sharply with its economy. Physical characteristics and guerilla war fragment the country geographically, yet it has a long tradition of political centrism and macroeconomic...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2122 Document Date: May 31, 1999 Disclosure Status: Author: Dillinger,William R.,Webb,Steven Benjamin

  • What do we know about the political economy of economic policy reform? (English)

    The recent wave of democratization in developing countries and in formerly communist ones has sparked renewed interest in the relation between politics and economic adjustment. Adjustment programs, however...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 14317 Document Date: July 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Haggard,Stephan Mark,Webb,Steven Benjamin

  • The World Bank research observer 8 (2) (English)

    The design and diffusion of improved cooking stoves. What do we know about the political economy of economic policy reform? Using auctions to allocate and price long-term credit. Wage controls during the...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17523 Document Date: July 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Barnes,Douglas French,Openshaw,Keith,Smith,Kirk Robert,Van Der Plas,Robert J.,Haggard,Stephan Mark,Webb,Steven Benjamin,Guasch, J. Luis,Glaessner,Thomas C.,Coricelli,Fabrizio,Lane, Timothy D.,Easterly,William R.,Schmidt-Hebbel,Klaus,Summers,Lawrence Henry,Thomas,Vinod