PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM AND THE WORLD BANK:
SOME PROGRESS IN MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES,
LESS IN POOR COUNTRIES
Check out the link to the report at
www.worldbank.org/ieg/psr
From the Press Release......
"World Bank support for public sector reform in
developing countries has helped to advance performance in public financial
management and tax administration. But shortcomings in civil service reform persist,
according to a new report by the World Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG).
“Public Sector Reform -- What Works and Why?”, released today, finds that over 80%
countries borrowing from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(IBRD), the part of the Bank that lends to middle-income and creditworthy poorer
countries, improved performance. Among the low income countries, which receive
interest-free credits and grants from the Bank’s International Development Association
(IDA), 69% showed improvement, with considerable room for further progress.
The Bank is devoting an increasing share, now about one-sixth, of its lending and
advisory support to the reform of central governments. For the evaluation, IEG examined
the Bank’s support from 1999 to 2006 in four areas—public financial management,
administrative and civil service, revenue administration, and anti-corruption and
transparency."