Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance

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Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance

dc.contributor.author	Lateef, K. Sarwar
dc.date.accessioned	2017-03-02T22:49:16Z
dc.date.available	2017-03-02T22:49:16Z
dc.date.issued	2016-01
dc.description.abstract	The preparation work for the 2017 World Development Report on Governance and the Law in 2016 will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the World Bank’s decision to broaden its ongoing work on public sector management to embrace key issues of governance in the Bank’s borrowing countries. This paper provides a broad overview of the major Bank reports on governance that went through a review process at a sufficiently high level in the institution that they can reasonably be described as reflecting the Bank’s considered views at the time on the subject. The objective is to review the evolution of the Bank’s thinking on governance and assess the relevance and effectiveness of the work and its implications for the forthcoming World Development Report. Section two of this paper begins with a brief account of how the Bank came to focus on issues of governance, reviewing the major upheaval of governance in many of the Bank’s borrowing countries in the 1980s, the legal constraints the Articles of Agreement impose on the Bank’s work on governance, and a brief overview of the Bank’s initial policy statement on governance issued to the Bank’s Board in June 1991. Section three reviews major Bank work on governance as reflected in successive World Development Reports and examines the Bank’s analysis of the issue of corruption, reviewing how the Bank’s thinking on this symptom of poor governance has evolved. Section four steps back to assess what the Bank got right and some of the issues it missed or failed to address adequately. Section five draws attention to the dramatic changes experienced by the developing world in these past 25 years, and points to the need to better understand the implications of these changes for the governance context facing developing countries.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/489281487588362200/World-development-report-2017-evolution-of-the-World-Bank-s-thinking-on-governance
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/26197
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/26197
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Development Report Background Paper;
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	governance
dc.subject	World Bank
dc.subject	state
dc.subject	social services
dc.subject	corruption
dc.title	Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
dc.type	Document de travail	fr
dc.type	Documento de trabajo	es
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okr.crossref.title	Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance
okr.date.disclosure	2017-02-20
okr.doctype	Publications & Research
okr.doctype	Publications & Research::Working Paper
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okr.identifier.doi	10.1596/26197
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okr.topic	Governance::International Governmental Organizations
okr.topic	Governance::Governance and the Financial Sector
okr.topic	Governance::National Governance
okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Public Sector Corruption/Anticorruption Measures
okr.topic	Public Sector Development::Public Sector Management and Reform
okr.unit	World Development Report (DECWD)