This paper investigates whether legal
reforms intended to create a market-friendly regulatory
business environment have a positive impact on economic and
financial outcomes....
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112947Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Oto-Peralías,Daniel ;
Romero-Ávila,Diego
The evolution of the telecommunications
sector is of keen interest from both a development and a
political economy perspective. Telecommunications is
critical to economic...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112874Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Atiyas,Izak ;
Levy,Brian David ;
Walton, Michael
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112915Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Lach,Samantha
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112919Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Leyronas,Stéphanie ;
Maurel,Frédéric ;
Rojat,Dominique ;
Giraud,Gaël
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,...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112976Date: January 1, 2017
Korea understood that education was the
best way to pull itself out of economic misery, so it
focused on overhauling schools and committed itself to
educating every...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 120299Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Rogers,F. Halsey ;
Al-Samarrai,Samer ;
Bendini,Maria Magdalena ;
Béteille, Tara ;
Evans, David ;
Kivine, Märt ;
Sabarwal,Shwetlena ;
Valerio,Alexandria ;
Abu-Jawdeh,Malek ;
Larson,Bradley Robert ;
Shrestha,Unika ;
Yuan,Fei
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116064Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Wallis,John Joseph
Governance quality plays a key role in
private sector development: competent bureaucrats not only
create good policies and regulations but also effectively
implement...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112974Date: January 1, 2017Author:
W. Tan,Shawn ;
T. Tran,Trang
The state, understood as an organization
holding the monopoly of force over a stable populationand
territory, emerged a few thousand years ago, mainly in those
areas...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116066Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Boix, Carles
Accountability is one of the
cornerstones of good governance. Establishing accountable
institutions is a top priority on the international
development agenda. Yet, scholars...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112920Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Staffan I. Lindberg ;
Anna Lührmann ;
Valeriya Mechkova
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112914Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Klugman,Jeni
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 116065Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Khan,Mushtaq Husain
The World Development Report 2017
Governance and the Law (World Bank, 2017) highlights the
intimate connection between the effectiveness of policy
reforms and governance....
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 113420Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Bold,Tessa ;
Molina,Ezequiel ;
Safir,Abla
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112917Date: January 1, 2017Author:
Le Roy,Étienne
The World development report (WDR) 2017
is centrally interested in the conditions under which three
headline development outcomes (growth, equity, security) can
be achieved...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112948Date: June 2, 2016Author:
Porter,Douglas John ;
Watts,Michael John
This paper presents an innovative
methodology for discovering policies that are consistent
with economic development. A development footprint narrative
is advanced to...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112906Date: May 26, 2016Author:
Castaneda,Gonzalo ;
Iniguez, Gerardo ;
Chavez-Juarez, Florian
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...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112918Date: May 2, 2016Author:
Levchenko,Andrei A.
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,
signi cant...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112882Date: May 1, 2016Author:
Caselli,Francesco
This paper introduces an innovative
methodology that combines industry level information
(exports, HA 4-digits) with indicators at the country level,
to analyze which...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112905Date: March 30, 2016Author:
Castaneda,Gonzalo ;
Chavez-Juarez, Florian
Mexico’s pursue and
implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) was a pro-growth policy strategy that deepened
Mexico’s economic...
Type: World Development ReportReport#: 112907Date: March 1, 2016Author:
Gonzalez Reyes,Alfredo
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