Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing

This report is a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. It introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools for competitiveness policy and subnational government performa...

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Main Authors:	Salhab, Jade, Hristova, Diana, Athar, Sohaib, Mahgoub, Ayah
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2022
Subjects:	SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS GRANT CITY COMPETITIVENESS SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT JOB CREATION INCLUSIVE GROWTH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099840007262233638/P178222031dc3a00709afd04ed8e90c75f5 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37778

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spelling	okr-10986-377782022-08-19T14:02:01Z Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing Salhab, Jade Hristova, Diana Athar, Sohaib Mahgoub, Ayah SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS GRANT CITY COMPETITIVENESS SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT JOB CREATION INCLUSIVE GROWTH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT This report is a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. It introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools for competitiveness policy and subnational government performance can be leveraged to advance the jobs and economic transformation agenda at the subnational level. SCGs are a type of intergovernmental fiscal instrument where fiscal transfers are provided to subnational governments to achieve improvements in competitiveness and local economic development. SCGs can enhance competitiveness by increasing the capacity, mandate, and incentives of subnational governments to affect relevant policy levers. This instrument builds on The World Bank’s 2015 report on Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth which provided a conceptual framework on how cities and subnational regions can become more competitive and create economic growth and quality jobs. This guidebook first discusses the relevance of subnational governments in enhancing competitiveness and shows that performance-based fiscal transfers can be a useful tool in incentivizing and capacitating subnational governments to support local competitiveness in particular contexts. The second part of the guidebook provides detailed guidance on the appropriate design and implementation of this instrument. This guidebook will be relevant for a wide variety of policymakers and practitioners, including national and subnational governments, program designers, and others interested in subnational and city competitiveness. 2022-07-27T18:53:37Z 2022-07-27T18:53:37Z 2022 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099840007262233638/P178222031dc3a00709afd04ed8e90c75f5 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37778 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic and Sector Work (ESW) Studies :: Other ESW Reports
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topic	SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS GRANT CITY COMPETITIVENESS SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT JOB CREATION INCLUSIVE GROWTH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT
spellingShingle	SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS GRANT CITY COMPETITIVENESS SUBNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS PERFORMANCE-BASED FINANCING ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENT JOB CREATION INCLUSIVE GROWTH PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT Salhab, Jade Hristova, Diana Athar, Sohaib Mahgoub, Ayah Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
description	This report is a guidebook for practitioners to promote policy actions that strengthen competitiveness at the subnational level. It introduces Subnational Competitiveness Grants (SCGs) as an innovative approach in which well-tested tools for competitiveness policy and subnational government performance can be leveraged to advance the jobs and economic transformation agenda at the subnational level. SCGs are a type of intergovernmental fiscal instrument where fiscal transfers are provided to subnational governments to achieve improvements in competitiveness and local economic development. SCGs can enhance competitiveness by increasing the capacity, mandate, and incentives of subnational governments to affect relevant policy levers. This instrument builds on The World Bank’s 2015 report on Competitive Cities for Jobs and Growth which provided a conceptual framework on how cities and subnational regions can become more competitive and create economic growth and quality jobs. This guidebook first discusses the relevance of subnational governments in enhancing competitiveness and shows that performance-based fiscal transfers can be a useful tool in incentivizing and capacitating subnational governments to support local competitiveness in particular contexts. The second part of the guidebook provides detailed guidance on the appropriate design and implementation of this instrument. This guidebook will be relevant for a wide variety of policymakers and practitioners, including national and subnational governments, program designers, and others interested in subnational and city competitiveness.
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author	Salhab, Jade Hristova, Diana Athar, Sohaib Mahgoub, Ayah
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title	Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
title_short	Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
title_full	Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
title_fullStr	Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
title_full_unstemmed	Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing
title_sort	subnational competitiveness grants guidebook : a tool to promote jobs and economic transformation in cities and regions through performance-based financing
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2022
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Subnational Competitiveness Grants Guidebook : A Tool to Promote Jobs and Economic Transformation in Cities and Regions through Performance-Based Financing

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