Governance reform : bridging monitoring and action / Brian Levy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levy, Brian, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public administration--Developing countries.

Public administration.

Developing countries.

Developing countries--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2007]

Summary:

Developing-country governance and its monitoring have risen to the top of the development agenda. This mounting interest is in response to compelling evidence that links governance to development performance-policy quality, public service provision, the investment climate, and the extent of corruption. Governance Reform: Bridging Monitoring and Action lays out a broad framework for analyzing and monitoring governance in developing countries. It identifies 14 core indicators for governance monitoring- both broad measures of overall patterns and specific "actionable" measures that can be used to guide reforms and track progress.

The book also summarizes good practices for reforming public bureaucracies and checks-and-balances institutions (including parliaments, the justice system, media and information, and local governance); highlights improvements in transparency as a relatively low-cost and low-key way of deepening government accountability to civil society; and suggests ways to complement top-down reforms with approaches that focus directly on improving service provision and the investment climate (such as strengthening the bottom-up accountabilities of service providers to communities, firms, and citizens). Governance reform has no universally applicable trajectory of change. Rather, the aims are: to find country-specific entry points for reform that have development impact in the short-term; to address binding public management constraints; and to help build momentum for further change.

Contents:

Monitoring Developing Country Governance xx

Monitoring and Improving Bureaucratic Capability xxiii

Monitoring and Improving National Checks-and-Balances Institutions xxvi

Governance Reform at the Front Line- Service Provision and the Investment Climate xxvii

Governance Reform-Country Patterns and Reform Options xxviii

Chapter 1 Monitoring Developing Country Governance 1

A Framework for Monitoring Governance 4

Indicators of Governance 10

Governance Monitoring-from Broad to Specific 21.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references(pages 115-119) and index.

ISBN:

9780821370322

0821370324

9780821370339

0821370332

OCLC:

80917147