Events

Launch of the Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators

The Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) is a cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages. The indicators are derived using a consistent methodology from micro-data based on nationally representative labor force and household surveys, and administrative data. WWBI is the most comprehensive data set of its kind with 192 indicators from 200 countries. Its is a product of the Bureaucracy Lab, a collaboration between the Governance Global Practice and the Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) Department in the Research Group. Join us on September 30, 2021 at 10:00 am EDT.
Opening Remarks

Mari Pangestu
Managing Director, Development Policy, and Partnerships, World Ban

Report Presentation

Zahid Hasnain
Senior Public Sector Specialist, World Bank

Panel Discussion

Tim Besley
W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics

Adil Zainulbhai
Chair of the Capacity Building Commission of India and the Chairman of the Quality Council of India

Nana Kwasi Agyekum Dwamena
Head of Civil Service, Ghana

Magdalena Mendoza
Senior Vice President, Development Academy of the Philippines

Moderator

Tracey Lane
Practice Manager, Governance, World Bank

Concluding Remarks

Indermit Gill
Vice President, Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions, World Bank