Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance
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 gover...
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okr-10986-261972021-05-25T10:54:41Z Evolution of the World Bank’s Thinking on Governance Lateef, K. Sarwar governance World Bank state social services corruption 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. 2017-03-02T22:49:16Z 2017-03-02T22:49:16Z 2016-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/489281487588362200/World-development-report-2017-evolution-of-the-World-Bank-s-thinking-on-governance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26197 English en_US World Development Report Background Paper; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper |
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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. |
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