TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levy,Brian
TI  - Governance reform: bridging monitoring and action 
SN  - 9780821370322 (pbk.)
AV  - JF60 .L49 2007
U1  - 352.367091724 LEV 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Public administration
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY	I
CHAPTER 1: MONITORING DEVELOPING-COUNTRY GOVERNANCE	1
INTRODUCTION	1
A FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING GOVERNANCE	5
INDICATORS OF GOVERNANCE	11
The Variety	12
The CPIA	13
Kaufmann-Kraay	16
Doing Business and the Investment Climate Surveys	20
GOVERNANCE MONITORING¿FROM BROAD TO SPECIFIC	25
CHAPTER 2: MONITORING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION	33
MONITORING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT	34
An Overall Assessment	36
Disaggregated Public Financial Management Indicators	38
Strengthening Public Financial Management	42
MONITORING AND IMPROVING ADMINISTRATIVE QUALITY	47
Monitoring Administrative Capability	47
Strengthening Administrative Capability	51
WHAT ALL THIS MEANS FOR SCALING UP AID	55
CHAPTER 3: MONITORING AND IMPROVING NATIONAL CHECKS AND BALANCES INSTITUTIONS	62
THE INNER CONSTELLATION -- DIRECT OVERSIGHT	64
Monitoring Direct Oversight	64
Strengthening Legislative Oversight	68
Decentralization	70
THE MIDDLE CONSTELLATION ¿ JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW	72
Defining	72
Monitoring	74
Reforming	76
THE OUTER CONSTELLATION ¿ TRANSPARENCY AND VOICE	78
The Supply and Dissemination of Information	79
Enhancing Capacity for the Effective Use of Information by Civil Society	83
Monitoring Transparency and Voice	87
THE CHALLENGE OF SEQUENCING CHECKS AND BALANCES AND BUREAUCRACY REFORMS	89
Trajectories of Change	89
Sustainability ¿ Bringing Checks and Balances into the Agenda	92
CHAPTER 4: GOVERNANCE REFORM AT THE FRONT-LINE: SERVICE PROVISION AND THE INVESTMENT CLIMATE	96
GETTING THE PRIORITIES RIGHT	97
Prioritizing Public Spending	97
Prioritizing Investment Climate Reforms	98
GETTING THE ACCOUNTABILITIES RIGHT	108
Balancing Flexibility and Control	108
Empowering the Front-Line	114
GOVERNANCE REFORM AS A CUMULATIVE PROCESS	121
REFERENCES	124
APPENDIX: APPLYING THE INDICATORS ¿ A TYPOLOGY OF COUNTRIES	128
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: National Governance Systems- Actors and Accountabilities	ii
Figure 2: Public Financial Management: a Performance Monitoring Framework	vi
Figure 3: Net Change in HIPC Indicator Tracking Scores, 2001-4	vii
Figure 4: A ¿Constellation¿ of Checks and Balances Institutions	ix
Figure 5: Perceptions of Service Delivery Performance in Nine Bangalore Agencies, 1994-2003	xiv
Figure 6: Governance Turnarounds¿Three Trajectories	xvii
Figure 1.1: National Governance Systems- Actors and Accountabilities	7
Figure 1.2: Trends in Administrative Corruption in Corruption in Europe	23
Figure 1.3: Corruption in Specific Sectors in ECA, 2002-2005	24
Figure 2.1: Public Financial Management: A Performance Monitoring Framework	35
Figure 2.2: Low-income Aid Recipient Countries by CPIA 13 (Quality of Budgetary and Financial Management) Score, 2004	37
Figure 2.3 Net Change in HIPC Indicator Tracking Scores, 2001-4	43
Figure 2.4: A Platform Approach to Budget Management Reforms in Cambodia	46
Figure 2.5: Low-income Aid Recipient Countries by CPIA 15 (Quality of Public Administration) score, 2004	50
Figure 3.1: A ¿Constellation¿ of Checks and Balances Institutions	62
Figure 3.2: The Virtuous Circle of Transparency ¿ from Disclosure to Responsiveness	79
Figure 3.3: Measuring Country Statistical Capacity: IBRD, IDA, and IDA-Africa, 1999-2005	81
Figure 3.4: Governance Turnarounds¿Three Trajectories	91
Figure 4.1: Obstacles to Growth	99
Figure 4.2: The Top Investment Climate Concern of Firms	102
Figure 4.3: Perceptions of Service Delivery Performance in Nine Bangalore Agencies, 1994-2003	117
Figure 4.4: A Governance Virtuous Spiral?	121
Figure A-1: IDA Countries Grouped by Bureaucratic Quality and Checks and Balance	130
LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: Transactions Costs of Doing Business ¿ DB and ICS Results	xii
Table 2: Intermediate Outcomes¿Corruption Versus Policy	xv
Table 3: State Capacity and State Accountability	xvi
Table 1.1: Nodes of Transparency in National Governance Systems	8
Table 1.2: 2004 Country Scores for the CPIA Public Institutions Cluster	14
Table 1.3: KK Estimates of the Extent of Corruption in 209 Countries 2004	20
Table 1.4: Intermediate Outcomes¿Corruption Versus Policy	26
Table 1.5: Governance Monitoring Indicators	28
Annex Table 1. 1 KK Estimates of the Extent of Corruption in 209 Countries, 2004	29
Annex Table: 1.2: Doing Business Indicators and Investment Climate Surveys¿Some Useful Measures for Governance Monitoring	31
Table 2.1: Quality of Budget Management Systems in 25 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, 2004	38
Table 2.2: Bureaucratic Capability and Governance Outcomes¿Some Correlations	51
Table 2.3: Public Administrative Reform in Three Countries	53
Annex Table 2.1: CPIA¿Quality of Budget and Financial Management	57
Annex Table 2.2: The PEFA PFM Performance Indicator Set	59
Annex Table 2.3: CPIA ¿ Quality of Public Administration	60
Table 3.1: Executive Constraints ¿ 2004 Polity IV Results for 60 Low-income Countries	66
Table 3.2: The Quality of Some Direct Oversight Institutions in 25 Countries Summarized by Groups	68
Table 3.3 KK Rule of Law 2004, Adjusted for CPIA Rules for 66 Low-income Aid Recipient Countries	75
Table 3.4 The Quality of Some Attributes of the Justice System in 25 Countries	76
Table 3.5: Participation in the PRS, 2005	85
Table 3.6: KK Voice and Accountability 2004, IDA and Blend Countries	88
Table 3.7: Public Integrity Index¿ Transparency and Civic Participation	89
Table 3.8 State Capacity and State Accountability	90
Annex Table 3.1: Checks and Balances Institutions: Patterns of Country Performance	94
Table 4.1: Top 3 Constraints to Enterprise Investment ¿Perceived and Computed	103
Table 4.2: Transaction Costs of Doing Business ¿ DB and ICS Results	104
Table A-1: IDA Countries Grouped by Bureaucratic Quality and Checks and Balances with Level of Actual and Predicted Corruption	131
LIST OF BOXES
Box 1.1: Governance and Growth ¿ the Big Picture	3
Box 1.2: Governance and Corruption are Not the Same Thing	6
Box 1.3: How Information Links Democracy and Development Effectiveness	9
Box 1.4: The 2004 CPIA¿s 16 criteria	13
Box 1.5: How Precise is the CPIA?	15
Box 1.6: Three Aggregate Governance Doing Business and Investment Climate Survey Indicators	22
Box 2.1: Two IMF tools to support fiscal management and transparency	36
Box 2.2: Recent Advances in Monitoring the Quality of Procurement	40
Box 2.3: Actionable Indicators on Public Administrative Quality	49
Box 3.1: The POLITY IV ¿ Executive Constraints¿ Criteria	65
Box 3.2: The Global Public Integrity Index as a Tool for Governance Monitoring	67
Box 3.3: Legislative Oversight in Africa¿A Work in Progress	69
Box 3.4: Common Definitions of the ¿Rule of Law	73
Box 3.5 Indicators of the Efficiency of Judicial Processes	76
Box 3.6: Global Norms for Collection and Publication of Economic and Social Data	80
Box 3.7: The Principles that Generally Underpin Freedom of Information Laws	83
Box 3.8: How Media Access can Influence Development Outcomes	87
Box 4.1: The Politics of Electricity Reform in Andhra Pradesh, India	101
Box 4.2 Why Stand-alone Investment Projects can be Bad for Governance	105
Box 4.3: Regulatory Imbalances in Chile and Jamaica: Some History	114
Box 4.4: Linking Community-based Resource Transfers and Decentralization in Albania, Indonesia and Peru	119
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