Information Access, Governance, and Service Delivery in Key Sectors: Themes and Lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia
PREMNote 121
This Note highlights the institutional context of information flows and differences in sector performance in service provision on the basis of forms of information, its access and availability, and dissemination.

 

July 2008

Let the Sunshine In: The Making of the Transparency and Access to Information Law in Honduras
PREMNote 118
On November 27, 2006, the Honduran Congress approved the Transparency and Access to Information (ATI) Law. As an active participant in the G-161 and pro-tempore chair of its Transparency Roundtable during the time the bill was under discussion, the World Bank (WB) contributed in different ways to facilitate an open and quality policy debate. This note recounts this process to illustrate how the WB can act as a catalyst in the context of a domestically driven agenda, as envisioned by the Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) strategy.

 

June 2008

Estimating Economic Benefits for Revenue Administration Reform Projects
PREMNote 112
The World Bank relies in part on economic benefit estimates to evaluate the merits of investment projects. Recent lending operations for revenue administrations in Vietnam have led to some rethinking of these calculations. This Note shares their findings.

 

March 2007

Decentralizing Infrastructure Services: Lessons from the East Asia Experience
PREMNote 109
Since the 1990s, most East Asian countries have increasingly shifted responsibilities for infrastructure services to subnational tiers of governments. This note takes stock of the results so far and draws lessons of experience.

 

June 2006

Contracting for Delivering Health
PREMNote 106
Current evidence indicates that contracting for health services is effective in improving access to and quality of services.

 

February 2006

Modeling Pay and Employment
PREMNote 105
The Bank's civil service pay and employment models can help governments weigh complex tradeoffs when designing reform programs.

 

February 2006

Institutionalizing M&E systems in Latin American and Caribbean Countries
PREMNote 102

 

October 2005

Staff incentives and project implementation: lessons from e-government
PREMNote 101
How should approaches to personnel management be changed so that staff incentives facilitate - rather than undermine - project implementation?

 

October 2005

Alternative dispute resolution - when it works, when it doesn't work
PREMNote 99
Initial results from alternative dispute resolution programs in developing and transition economies suggest that reformers do not appreciate the programs' limitations.

 

August 2005

Engendering justice: a gender assessment’s impact on projectdesign
PREMNote 98
Services are more efficient and equitable when targeted to the different needs of men and women. A gender assessment, focused on a specific issue or sector, is a cost-effective tool for improving project performance and meeting poor people's needs.

 

May 2005