Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
Public entities around the world possess an enormous volume of assets and wealth, which includes land, buildings, historic sites, parks, and infrastructure networks, among many others. Good management...
Public entities around the world possess an enormous volume of assets and wealth, which includes land, buildings, historic sites, parks, and infrastructure networks, among many others. Good management...
The key objective of the workshop was to understand the extent that asset management is deployed in railway infrastructure in the ECA region and gauge what support would be needed in this area. The objective...
This handbook is designed as a how-to manual that guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen...
The objectives of the Secondary Road Asset Management Project for Georgia is to improve access to markets and services through the rehabilitation and sustainable maintenance of project secondary roads...
This handbook is designed as a how-to manual that guides practitioners as they grapple with the strategic, organizational, investigative, and legal challenges of recovering assets that have been stolen...
Non-Conviction Based (NCB) asset forfeiture is a powerful tool for recovering the proceeds of corruption, particularly in cases where the proceeds have been transferred abroad. With an increased focus...
This report, the puppet masters, deals with the corporate and financial structures that form the building blocks of hidden money trails. In particular, it focuses on the ease with which corrupt actors...
This brief summarizes the women's inheritance rights and intergenerational transmission of resources in India for the period 1986-1994. The author use inheritance patterns over three generations of individuals...
This report presents a review of current practices on the disclosure of information on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects and contracts from 11 jurisdictions at the national and sub-national level...
This report presents a review of current practice on the disclosure of information on PPP projects and contracts from 11 jurisdictions at the national and sub-national level representing 8 countries.
On March 14, 2006, the World Bank today approved a US40 million dollars grant to continue supporting the Afghanistan National Solidarity Program (NSP), which has reached about 8.5 million Afghans in rural...
This article analyzes poverty reduction policies in an applied optimal growth framework. Assuming that poverty reduction is effected through redistribution, it focuses on the static and dynamic tradeoffs...