State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18

State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a major role in many developing and emerging economies, where governments use them to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. SOEs deliver and extend access to services, fill gaps in markets, develop...

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Main Author: Independent Evaluation Group
Format: Evaluation
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/107061607037925280/State-Your-Business-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-the-Reform-of-State-Owned-Enterprises-FY08-18
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spelling okr-10986-349452021-09-16T19:57:51Z State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18 Independent Evaluation Group STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM WORLD BANK GROUP STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS WORLD BANK GROUP PROGRAM WORLD BANK GROUP PORTFOLIO COMPETITION POLICY CORRUPTION PRIVATIZATION State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a major role in many developing and emerging economies, where governments use them to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. SOEs deliver and extend access to services, fill gaps in markets, develop key sectors or regions, and provide employment. However, SOEs’ mixed institutional mandates and their political importance often pose performance, financial and governance challenges. This is IEG’s first systematic assessment of the Bank Group’s support for the reform of SOEs, looking at what works and the factors of success. It parallels Bank Group efforts to provide more integrated support to SOE reform in client countries and to empower staff with new tools. The evaluation focused on five major types of SOE reforms in the financial and energy sectors: (i) Corporate governance improvements; (ii) Business and operational reforms; (iii) Measures to strengthen competition and regulation in SOE markets; (iv) Privatization and other ownership reforms (including PPPs); (v) Macro, fiscal, and public financial management (PFM) reforms. The evaluation includes findings about the impact of competition on SEO performance; corruption control and its effect on SEO reform; the success of World Bank Group sequential and complementarity interventions; and about other factors that aid success such us client commitment, collaboration, strong design features, solid results frameworks and monitoring, and early risk identification. Based on the findings and lessons of experience drawn from this evaluation, IEG offers Management two recommendations to enhance the Bank Group’s support to SOE reform: (i) The World Bank Group should apply a selectivity framework for SOE reform support that considers country governance conditions, control of corruption, and sector and enterprise-level competition; and (ii) The World Bank Group should apply the MFD and its embedded Cascade approach for SOE reform. 2020-12-17T15:56:49Z 2020-12-17T15:56:49Z 2020-12-03 Evaluation http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/107061607037925280/State-Your-Business-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-the-Reform-of-State-Owned-Enterprises-FY08-18 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34945 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: IEG Evaluation
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topic STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
WORLD BANK GROUP STRATEGY
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
WORLD BANK GROUP PROGRAM
WORLD BANK GROUP PORTFOLIO
COMPETITION POLICY
CORRUPTION
PRIVATIZATION
spellingShingle STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM
WORLD BANK GROUP STRATEGY
DEVELOPMENT EFFECTIVENESS
WORLD BANK GROUP PROGRAM
WORLD BANK GROUP PORTFOLIO
COMPETITION POLICY
CORRUPTION
PRIVATIZATION
Independent Evaluation Group
State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
description State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) play a major role in many developing and emerging economies, where governments use them to achieve economic, social, and political objectives. SOEs deliver and extend access to services, fill gaps in markets, develop key sectors or regions, and provide employment. However, SOEs’ mixed institutional mandates and their political importance often pose performance, financial and governance challenges. This is IEG’s first systematic assessment of the Bank Group’s support for the reform of SOEs, looking at what works and the factors of success. It parallels Bank Group efforts to provide more integrated support to SOE reform in client countries and to empower staff with new tools. The evaluation focused on five major types of SOE reforms in the financial and energy sectors: (i) Corporate governance improvements; (ii) Business and operational reforms; (iii) Measures to strengthen competition and regulation in SOE markets; (iv) Privatization and other ownership reforms (including PPPs); (v) Macro, fiscal, and public financial management (PFM) reforms. The evaluation includes findings about the impact of competition on SEO performance; corruption control and its effect on SEO reform; the success of World Bank Group sequential and complementarity interventions; and about other factors that aid success such us client commitment, collaboration, strong design features, solid results frameworks and monitoring, and early risk identification. Based on the findings and lessons of experience drawn from this evaluation, IEG offers Management two recommendations to enhance the Bank Group’s support to SOE reform: (i) The World Bank Group should apply a selectivity framework for SOE reform support that considers country governance conditions, control of corruption, and sector and enterprise-level competition; and (ii) The World Bank Group should apply the MFD and its embedded Cascade approach for SOE reform.
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title State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
title_short State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
title_full State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
title_fullStr State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
title_full_unstemmed State Your Business! : An Evaluation of World Bank Group Support to the Reform of State-Owned Enterprises, FY08-18
title_sort state your business! : an evaluation of world bank group support to the reform of state-owned enterprises, fy08-18
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/107061607037925280/State-Your-Business-An-Evaluation-of-World-Bank-Group-Support-to-the-Reform-of-State-Owned-Enterprises-FY08-18
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