Publication: CPIA Africa, June 2012: Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions
Date
2012-06
ISSN
Published
2012-06
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The World Bank's Country Policy and
Institutional Assessment (CPIA) is an important knowledge
product that assesses the performance of 39 IDA countries
along 16 dimensions of policy and institutional quality.
This is the first in the series of annual reports. The 16
dimensions are grouped into four clusters: economic
management; structural policies; policies for social
inclusion and equity; and public sector management and
institutions. The CPIA has been measuring and tracking the
strength of policies and institutions in IDA-eligible
countries since 1980, and releasing that information since
2006. Until now, the CPIA has been used mainly to inform
IDA's allocation of resources to poor countries and in
research. Yet the information contained in the CPIA is
potentially valuable to governments, the private sector,
civil society, researchers and the media as a tool to
monitor their country's progress and benchmark it
against progress in other countries. By presenting the CPIA
scores for 38 African countries over six years in one
easy-to-read document, this report aims to provide citizens
with information that can support evidence-based debate that
can, in turn, lead to better development outcomes. The scope
of the report is motivated by the World Bank's open
data initiative and the new Africa strategy, both of which
seek to foster participation in development from a wide
range of stakeholders by providing broader access to data
and knowledge.
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Citation
“World Bank. 2012. CPIA Africa, June 2012: Assessing Africa's Policies and Institutions. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26853 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”