Fostering trust and transparency through information systems
PREMNote 97
Reliable official recordkeeping systems provide evidence that is crucial to accountable, transparent democracies. How can countries improve such systems?

 

March 2005

Trends in recent World Bank support for severance pay
PREMNote 96
Understanding recent Bank lending for severance payments to retrenched public employees can aid asessments of new projects with severance components.

 

March 2005

Operationalizing political analysis: the Expected Utility Stakeholder Model and governance reforms
PREMNote 95
Rigorous stakeholder analysis tools like the Expected Utility Stakeholder Model can help the World Bank factor political realities into the design of operational programs.

 

November 2004

Legislation on freedom of information: trends and standards
PREMNote 93

 

October 2004

Building blocks of e-government: lessons from developing countries
PREMNote 91
Electronic government offers enormous potential for improving public sector performance. This note provides lessons on how national e-government plans can be formulated wand what makes individual projects successful.

 

August 2004

Korea's move to e-procurement
PREMNote 90
The Republic of Korea's electronic procurement system has generated considerable benefits -- and offers lessons for other countries interested in public procurement reform.

 

July 2004

The Public Sector Governance Reform Cycle: available diagnostic tools
PREMNote 88
The World Bank has developed a variety of tools to assess and strengthen public sector capacity in client countries. What role can these tools play, and when and how are they best used?

 

July 2004

Assessing country readiness for results-based monitoring
PREMNote 87
Results-based monitoring and evaluations systems can facilitate public sector reform in developing countries. A new World Bank tool - a readiness assessment - helps determine whether countries can support such systems and offers additional lessons for evaluating government performance.

 

June 2004

Salary bonuses in revenue: do they work
PREMNote 83
Many revenue departments offer bonuses in hopes of improving worker performance. But such mechanisms pose enormous risks --and so require careful design and cautious implementation.

 

January 2004

Estimating financing needs for local services in Madagascar
PREMNote 81
As more countries decentralize public services, there is a growing need to assess local service needs and available financing. A study in Madagascar offers a methodology for conducting such assessments, which should be complemented by tools that measure the efficiency and quality of public spending.

 

November 2003