Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and ActionDeveloping-country governance and its monitoring have risen to the top of the development agenda. This mounting interest is in response to compelling evidence that links governance to development performance-policy quality, public service provision, the investment climate, and the extent of corruption. 'Governance Reform: Bridging, Monitoring, and Action' lays out a broad framework for analyzing and monitoring governance in developing countries. It identifies fourteen core indicators for governance monitoring both broad measures of overall patterns and specific 'actionable' measures that can be used to guide reforms and track progress. The book also summarizes good practices for reforming public bureaucracies and checks and balances institutions (including parliaments, the justice system, media and information, and local governance); highlights improvements in transparency as a relatively low-cost and low-key way of deepening government accountability to civil society; and suggests ways to complement top-down reforms with approaches that focus directly on improving service provision and the investment climate (such as strengthening the bottom-up accountabilities of service providers to communities, firms, and citizens). 'Governance Reform' has no universally applicable trajectory of change. Rather, the aims are: to find country-specific entry points for reform which have development impact in the short-term; to address binding public management constraints, and to help build momentum for further change. |
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Page 15 - Voice and accountability Political stability and absence of violence Government effectiveness Regulatory quality Rule of law...
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Page 80 - We refer to the first of these as voice and 1external) accountability; it includes a number of indicators measuring various aspects of the political process, civil liberties, and political rights. These indicators measure the extent to which citizens of a country are able to participate in the selection of governments.
Page 75 - Court also believes, however, that that same concept of public order in a democratic society requires the guarantee of the widest possible circulation of news, ideas and opinions as well as the widest access to information by society as a whole. Freedom of expression constitutes the primary and basic element of the public order of a democratic society, which is not conceivable without free debate and the possibility that dissenting voices be fully heard.
Page 74 - SDDS is a voluntary standard whose subscribers-countries with access to international financial markets or seeking it-commit to meeting internationally accepted norms of data coverage, frequency, and timeliness. Subscribers also agree to issue calendars on data releases and follow good practice with respect to the integrity...
Page 16 - The unobserved components model expresses the observed data in each cluster as a linear function of the unobserved common component of governance, plus a disturbance term capturing perception errors and/or sampling variation in each indicator. The aggregation procedure used by KK has some important strengths for empirical work on governance.
Page 60 - Executive parity or subordination: Accountability groups have effective authority equal to or greater than the executive in most areas of activity.
Page 29 - These surveys were conducted jointly by the World Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; they are known as the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys (BEEPS). 11. This forthcoming analysis is tentatively titled "Anticorruption in Transition 3.
Page 27 - Average value of gifts or informal payments to public officials to "get things done" with regard to customs, taxes, licenses, regulations, services, etc.
Page 16 - ... additional payments to get things done,' to the effects of corruption on the business environment, to measuring 'grand corruption...