Investment Climate Reform: Going the Last Mile The Bulldozer Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina
The author examines the Bulldozer Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an innovative reform methodology that successfully overcame the lack of political will and capacity at the government level through a bottom-up approach. Using an innovative gr...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, D.C.
2013
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/09/5114857/investment-climate-reform-going-last-mile-bulldozer-initiative-bosnia-herzegovina http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14141 |
| Summary: | The author examines the Bulldozer
Initiative in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an innovative reform
methodology that successfully overcame the lack of political
will and capacity at the government level through a
bottom-up approach. Using an innovative grassroots and
public awareness methodology, the initiative mobilized the
local business community to bulldoze barriers by identifying
concrete legislative changes and advocating for their
adoption and implementation. By delivering fast results-50
reforms in 150 days-the initiative won the confidence of
entrepreneurs and empowered them to institutionalize
permanent grassroots reform committees. The force of this
lobby group created political will by putting public
pressure on the politicians to do their part to enact the
reforms. Most important, it carried investment climate
reform the last mile by delivering concrete, quantifiable
results in all sectors of the economy. Over time, the
initiative is establishing a dynamic of reform and
public-private partnership that will facilitate the tackling
of more complicated structural reforms. Complementing the
systemic approach and framework reform efforts of
governments and international agencies, competitiveness
partnerships mobilize the local business community to
catalog concrete problems across the full spectrum of
investment climate concerns, pinpoint solutions, campaign
for their adoption, and follow up on reform implementation.
The author attempts to determine the applicability of
competitiveness partnerships to different settings by
modeling the interactions between several key success
factors, thus providing a pertinent tool for development
professionals, government officials, and private sector
advocates who wish to establish a renewed implementation
dynamic through this kind of results-oriented reform process. |
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