SSRN World Bank: Public Sector Management (Topic)

1.

Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3106

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 18 Jun 2003

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Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank Institute

Downloads 9,367

2.

Seize the State, Seize the Day: State Capture, Corruption and Influence in Transition

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2444

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Oct 2000

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Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones and Daniel Kaufmann

World Bank - Governance and Public Sector Reform, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI)

Downloads 8,156

3.

Governance Matters

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2196

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 05 Nov 1999

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Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Downloads 7,694

4.

Governance Matters II: Updated Indicators for 2000-01

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2772

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 28 Jan 2002

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Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Pablo Zoido

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

Downloads 4,907

5.

Growth Without Governance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2928

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Jul 2002

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Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 4,461

6.

Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Performance: The Case of Chinese Stock Companies

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1794

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Dec 1997

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Xiaonian Xu and Yan Wang

Amherst College and Peking University

Downloads 4,245

7.

Public vs. Private Ownership: The Current State of the Debate

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2420

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Mar 2001

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Mary M. Shirley and Patrick Walsh

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank (Formerly)

Downloads 3,656

8.

The New Comparative Economics

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2002; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ES-24; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3054

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Dec 2004

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Andrei Shleifer, Edward L. Glaeser, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Rafael La Porta and Simeon Djankov

Harvard University - Department of Economics, Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics, SKEMA Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,859

9.

Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3824

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Jan 2006

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Anwar Shah

World Bank

Downloads 2,264

10.

Decentralization and Service Delivery

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3603

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 27 Jun 2005

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Junaid Kamal Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

World Bank, World Bank Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 2,133

11.

The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy and Economic Management in Oil-Exporting Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2899

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Alan Gelb, Benn Eifert and Nils Borje Tallroth

World Bank, World Bank and World Bank

Downloads 1,664

12.

The Social Rate of Return on Infrastructure Investments

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2390

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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David Canning and Esra Bennathan

Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and University of Bristol - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,611

13.

The Regulation of Entry

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Paper No. 1904, KSG Working Paper No. 01-015; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2661

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 04 Oct 2000

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Simeon Djankov, Florencio Lopez de Silanes, Rafael La Porta and Andrei Shleifer

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), SKEMA Business School, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Harvard University - Department of Economics

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,438

14.

Preventing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Middle and Low-Income Countries: A Global Review and Analysis

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3618

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Jul 2005

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Sarah Bott, Andrew Morrison and Mary Ellsberg

Independent, World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and Independent

Downloads 1,388

15.

Balance, Accountability, and Responsiveness: Lessons about Decentralization

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2021

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Anwar Shah

World Bank

Downloads 1,375

16.

Does Decentralization Increase Government Responsiveness to Local Needs? Evidence from Bolivia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2516

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Feb 2001

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Jean-Paul Faguet

London School of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,014

17.

An Analysis of South Africa's Value Added Tax

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3671

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Aug 2005

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Delfin S. Go, Marna Kearney, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder

Development Prospects Group, The World Bank, South Africa National Treasury, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and United States Naval Academy - Department of Economics

Downloads 940

18.

Tools for Legislative Oversight: An Empirical Investigation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3388

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Riccardo Pelizzo and Rick Stapenhurst

Nazarbayev University and McGill University - Institute for the Study of International Development

Downloads 933

19.

India's Public Health System: How Well Does it Function at the National Level?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3447

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Monica Das Gupta and Manju Rani

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 802

20.

International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3720

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Oct 2005

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Simon J. Evenett and Bernard Hoekman

University of Oxford - Said Business School and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 786

21.

Anti-Corruption Policies and Programs: A Framework for Evaluation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2501

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Anwar Shah and Jeffrey Huther

World Bank and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Downloads 711

22.

Implementing Decentralized Local Governance: A Treacherous Road with Potholes, Detours, and Road Closures

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3353

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Anwar Shah and Theresa Thompson Chaudhry

World Bank and Lahore School of Economics

Downloads 698

23.

Individual Attitudes toward Corruption: Do Social Effects Matter?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3122

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Roberta Gatti, Stefano Paternostro and Jamele Rigolini

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank - Poverty Reduction Group (PRMPR) and New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics

Downloads 666

24.

Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3712

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Sep 2005

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Daniel Kaufmann, Frannie Leautier and Massimo Mastruzzi

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI), World Bank Institute and World Bank Institute

Downloads 659

25.

Sector Organization, Governance, and the Inefficiency of African Water Utilities

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2890

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Antonio Estache and Eugene Kouassi

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and University of Montreal - Department of Economics

Downloads 650

26.

Does a Country Need a Promotion Agency to Attract Foreign Direct Investment? A Small Analytical Model Applied to 58 Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3028

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Jacques P. Morisset

World Bank - Foreign Investment Advisory Service (FIAS)

Downloads 627

27.

Does Grease Money Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2254

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Daniel Kaufmann and Shang-Jin Wei

Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) and Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics

Downloads 586

28.

A Review of the Political Economy of Governance: From Property Rights to Voice

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3315

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Philip Keefer

Inter-American Development Bank

Downloads 578

29.

Democratization and Clientelism: Why Are Young Democracies Badly Governed?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3594

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Jun 2005

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Philip Keefer

Inter-American Development Bank

Downloads 563

30.

Democracy, Credibility and Clientelism

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3472

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Oct 2004

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Philip Keefer and Razvan Vlaicu

Inter-American Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 550

31.

Localization and Corruption: Panacea or Pandora's Box?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3486

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Jan 2005

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Tugrul Gurgur and Anwar Shah

Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and World Bank

Downloads 520

32.

Improving Child Nutrition Outcomes in India: Can the Integrated Child Development Services Program Be More Effective?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3647

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 25 Jul 2005

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Monica Das Gupta, Michael Lokshin, Michele Gragnolati and Oleksiy Ivaschenko

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), World Bank - Latin America and Caribbean Region and World Bank

Downloads 513

33.

Can Student Loans Improve Accessibility to Higher Education and Student Performance? An Impact Study of the Case of SOFES, Mexico

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3425

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Erik J.F. Canton and Andreas Blom

CPB Netherlands Bureau of Economic Policy Analysis and World Bank

Downloads 497

34.

Politics, Transaction Costs, and the Design of Regulatory Institutions

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2073

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Antonio Estache and David Martimort

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and University of Toulouse 1 - Industrial Economic Institute (IDEI)

Downloads 497

35.

Public Spending and Outcomes: Does Governance Matter?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2840

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Vinaya Swaroop and Andrew Sunil Rajkumar

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 483

36.

Bridging the Economic Divide within Nations: A Scorecard on the Performance of Regional Development Policies in Reducing Regional Income Disparities

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2717

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Raja Shankar and Anwar Shah

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology and World Bank

Downloads 460

37.

Do More Transparent Governments Govern Better?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3077

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Roumeen Islam

World Bank

Downloads 460

38.

Tax Systems in Transition

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2947

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 19 Mar 2003

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Pradeep Mitra and Nicholas Stern

World Bank - Europe and Central Asia Region and Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

Downloads 456

39.

Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3469

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Jan 2005

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Norman Loayza, Ana Maria Oviedo and Luis Servén

World Bank - Research Department, University of Maryland - Department of Economics and World Bank - Office of the Chief Economist

Downloads 452

40.

The Implications of Hyperbolic Discounting for Project Evaluation

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1943

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Maureen Cropper and David Laibson

University of Maryland - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Department of Economics

Downloads 441

41.

Kenyan Exports of Nile Perch: Impact of Food Safety Standards on an Export-Oriented Supply Chain

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3349

Number of pages: 87 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Spencer Henson and Winnie Mitullah

University of Guelph - Department of Agricultural Economics and Business and University of Nairobi - Institute for Development Studies

Downloads 427

42.

Road Infrastructure Concession Practice in Europe

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2675

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Frank Bousquet and Alain Fayard

Independent and Independent

Downloads 424

43.

Child Mortality and Public Spending on Health: How Much Does Money Matter?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1864

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Deon Filmer and Lant Pritchett

World Bank and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

Downloads 419

44.

The Power of Information: Evidence from a Newspaper Campaign to Reduce Capture

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3239

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson

The World Bank and Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES)

Downloads 419

45.

Does Decentralization Increase Spending on Public Infrastructure?

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1457

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Antonio Estache and Sarbajit Sinha

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) - European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) and World Bank

Downloads 413

46.

Small-Scale Irrigation Dams, Agricultural Production, and Health: Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3494

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Jan 2005

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Lire Ersado

World Bank

Downloads 410

47.

An International Statistical Survey of Government Employment and Wages

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1806

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Salvatore Schiavo-Campo, Giulio de Tommaso and Amit Mukherjee

Independent, Independent and United Airlines World Headquarters-WHQKB - Information Services Division

Downloads 407

48.

Aid Dependence and the Quality of Governance: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 2396

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Stephen Knack

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 402

49.

Public Spending and the Poor: What We Know, What We Need to Know

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1476

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Dominique P. van de Walle

World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG)

Downloads 395

50.

Decentralization or Fiscal Autonomy? What Does Really Matter? Effects on Growth and Public Sector Size in European Transition Countries

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3254

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Jan 2005

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Jean-Philippe Meloche, François Vaillancourt and Serdar Yilmaz

University of Montreal, University of Montreal and World Bank

Downloads 393

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