Documents & Reports
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World development report 2017 : Illicit financial flows and governance - the importance of disaggregation (English)
After decades of billion dollar scandals around long-serving dictators removing vast fortunes from their impoverished nations, the broader phenomenon of which this is part has acquired a label: Illicit...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112973 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Reuter,Peter
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World development report 2017 : Water from the heights, water from the grassroots : the governance of common dynamics and public services in La Paz-El Alto (English)
In this paper, the authors approach water governance not only through the prism of sectoral organization and the official services, but also through all of the practices, still to be “integrated” into...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112881 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Botton,Sarah,Hardy,Sébastien,Poupeau,Franck
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World development report 2017 : Guatemala’s international commission against impunity - a case study on institutions and rule of law (English)
In the last years of the armed conflict, some of the actors that have participated in those clandestine operations re-adapted their modus operandi to fit other types of criminal activities such as customs...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112904 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Carrera, Fernando
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Corruption as social order (English)
To understand why corruption has become the crucial issue for the latest generation of protestmovements and uprisings, from Tunisia to Moldova and from India to Brazil, public corruption is best conceived...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 116067 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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Clientelism in the public sector : why public service reforms may not succeed and what to do about it (English)
The World Development Report 2017 Governance and the Law (World Bank, 2017) highlights the intimate connection between the effectiveness of policy reforms and governance. The Report argues that power asymmetries...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 113420 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bold,Tessa,Molina,Ezequiel,Safir,Abla
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World development report 2017 : hybrid land regulation between the commons and the market land tenure in the Comoros (English)
Following a chaotic political decolonization, from 1975 to 2000, the Comoros failed to sustain the extension of private land ownership pursued since the beginning of the twentieth century and to implement...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112917 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Le Roy,Étienne
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World development report 2017 : legal reforms and economic performance : revisiting the evidence (English)
This paper investigates whether legal reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory business environment have a positive impact on economic and financial outcomes. After conducting a critical...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112947 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Oto-Peralías,Daniel,Romero-Ávila,Diego
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World development report 2017 : gender based violence and the law (English)
The phenomenon of gender-based violence is pervasive around the world, experienced by some one in three women in their lifetimes. The elimination of such violence has been increasingly recognized as a...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112914 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Klugman,Jeni
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Corruption spotlight (English)
The weak enforcement of a rule of law is closely related to the prevalence of corruption. Corruption involves different types of rule-violations by bureaucrats, politicians and businesses where power is...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 116065 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Khan,Mushtaq Husain
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World development report : the effect of local governance on firm productivity and resource allocation - evidence from Vietnam (English)
Governance quality plays a key role in private sector development: competent bureaucrats not only create good policies and regulations but also effectively implement them to shape the business environment...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112974 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: W. Tan,Shawn,T. Tran,Trang
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World development report : governance in service delivery in the Middle East and North Africa (English)
This paper examines the clientelistic equilibrium that remains prevalent in much of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the post-independence period, undermining service delivery and...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112976 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed
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World development report 2017 : toward an analytical framework for the governance of natural resources : The case of groundwater (English)
The issue of groundwater management challenges the paradigm along which the concept of good governance has developed since the 1990s. We show that in contexts involving multiple power structures, the exploitation...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112919 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Leyronas,Stéphanie,Maurel,Frédéric,Rojat,Dominique,Giraud,Gaël
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Governance and violence (English)
This background paper addresses four questions. The questions are : 1) What did Weber say when he defined the modern state as the organization with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence? 2) What...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 116064 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wallis,John Joseph
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World development report 2017 : from de-jure to de-facto : Mapping dimensions and sequences of accountability (English)
Accountability is one of the cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable institutions is a top priority on the international development agenda. Yet, scholars and democracy practitioners...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112920 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Staffan I. Lindberg,Anna Lührmann,Valeriya Mechkova
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World development report 2017 : rent creation and rent containment - the political economy of telecommunications in Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey (English)
The evolution of the telecommunications sector is of keen interest from both a development and a political economy perspective. Telecommunications is critical to economic dynamics, to the quality of life...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112874 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Atiyas,Izak,Levy,Brian David,Walton, Michael
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World development report 2017 : Contestability and changes in tolerance towards corruption : the formation of an elite-citizen coalition in Mexico (English)
This paper uses some of the main elements of the World Development Report 2017 framework to analyze how the initiative came to be. First, it looks to investigate the origin of the constitutional changes...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112915 Document Date: January 1, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Lach,Samantha
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World development report 2017 : multi-scalar governance and institutions - intentional development and the conditions of possibility in the extractive sector (English)
The World development report (WDR) 2017 is centrally interested in the conditions under which three headline development outcomes (growth, equity, security) can be achieved by improving the effectiveness...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112948 Document Date: June 2, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Porter,Douglas John,Watts,Michael John
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World development report 2017 : the complex network of public policies - an empirical framework for identifying their relevance in economic development (English)
This paper presents an innovative methodology for discovering policies that are consistent with economic development. A development footprint narrative is advanced to suggest that laggard countries can...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112906 Document Date: May 26, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Castaneda Ramos,Gonzalo Alberto,Iniguez, Gerardo,Chavez-Juarez, Florian
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World development report 2017 : the impact of trade openness on institutions (English)
The impact of opening to trade on economic institutions is likely to be multifaceted and depend crucially on country-specific circumstances. In the past decade an active body of research has studied this...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112918 Document Date: May 2, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Levchenko,Andrei A.
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World development report 2017 : Accounting for cross-country income differences : ten years later (English)
The study focused on a cross-section of countries observed in the mid-1990s, so the conclusions from that effort are beginning to be a bit dated. In addition, signicant revisions of the data underlying...
Document Type: World Development Report Report No.: 112882 Document Date: May 1, 2016 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Caselli,Francesco