Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Management Response -- Chairperson's Summary: Committee on Development Effectiveness -- Chapter 1 Objective, Scope, and Method of Evaluation -- Objectives and Framework -- Scope -- Criteria for Evaluation -- Methods -- Chapter 2 Historical Overview of Public Sector Reform at the World Bank -- 1946 to 1982: PSR at the Margins -- 1983 to 1989: Focus on Quality of Government -- 1990 to 1996: Increasing Awareness of Governance Agenda -- 1997 to 2007: PSR Efforts Become Central, Include Anticorruption -- Chapter 3 World Bank Support for Public Sector Reform -- Lending Projects for Public Sector Reform -- AAA Tasks for Public Sector Reform -- Institutional Development Grants -- Thematic Distribution of PSR Projects -- Staffing for PSR -- Chapter 4 How Public Sector Reform Outcomes Differ by Country Groups -- Measurement, Attribution, and the Role of Governments, the Bank, and Donors -- Summary Results -- IEG Project Ratings -- Reasons for Country Differences -- Chapter 5 Public Sector Reform Outcomes and Performance by Thematic Area -- Overview of Thematic Differences -- Summary Lessons from Thematic Comparisons -- Chapter 6 Strategic Summary, Ratings, and Recommendations -- Reform Motivations, Expectations, and Success Factors -- Country PSR Strategy Entry Points -- Summary Evaluation Ratings -- Recommendations -- Appendixes -- APPENDIX A: DATA SET DESCRIPTION: PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM LENDING, AAA, AND INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDS -- APPENDIX B: STATEMENT BY THE EXTERNAL ADVISORY PANEL -- ENDNOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Boxes -- Box 1.1: Scope of Review on the Bank's Anticorruption Activity -- Box 4.1: Pros and Cons of CPIA as a Governance Measure -- Box 5.1: Too Much Attention to the Technical Aspects-Not Enough to the Human Element in Ghana.

Box 5.2: Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative-Multi-Donor Trust Fund -- Figures -- Figure ES.1: Lending Projects with Significant PSR Components, 1990-2006 -- Figure 3.1: Lending Projects with Significant PSR Components, 1990-2006 -- Figure 3.2: Lending Value in Projects with a Significant PSR Component -- Figure 3.3: Regional Distribution of Public Sector Reform Projects -- Figure 3.4: Themes Included in Projects with Significant PSR Funding -- Figure 3.5: Public Sector Reform Conditions -- Figure 5.1: Number of CSA Projects with Various Subcategories of Conditions -- Tables -- Table 1.1: Results Framework for Public Sector Reform -- Table 1.2: Case Study Countries -- Table 3.1: Public Sector Reform AAA Products (number of products) -- Table 3.2: IDF Grants on Public Sector Reform Themes (numbers of grants) -- Table 3.3: Public Sector Reform Lending and AAA Activities in Relation to Public Sector Governance -- Table 3.4: Public Sector Staffing and Specialties by Region -- Table 4.1: Percent of Countries with Improved CPIA Governance Scores by PSR Theme and IDA/IBRD Classification -- Table 4.2: Percent of Countries with Improved Governance CPIA Scores by Region, 1999-2006 -- Table 4.3: Summary of IEG Project Ratings for Closed PSR Projects, 1999-2006 -- Table 5.1: Changes in Selected CPIA Scores by PSR Theme, Initial Governance Score, and IDA/IBRD Classification -- Table 5.2: Improvement Rates in Public Financial Management (CPIA 13) by IDA/IBRD Classification -- Table 5.3: Civil Service and Administrative Reform: Types and Challenges -- Table 5.4: State Capture and Bureaucratic Corruption, and Indirect Ways to Combat Them -- Table 6.1: Overall Bank Performance Ratings, 1999-2006.

The effectiveness and efficiency of a country's public sector is vital to the success of development activities, including those the World Bank supports. Sound financial management, an efficient civil service and administrative policy, efficient and fair collection of taxes, and transparent operations that are relatively free of corruption all contribute to good delivery of public services. The Bank has devoted an increasing share of its lending and advisory support to the reform of central governments, so it is important to understand what is working, what needs improvement, and what is missing. IEG has examined lending and other kinds of Bank support in 1999-2006 for public sector reform in four areas: public financial management, administrative and civil service, revenue administration, and anticorruption and transparency.Although a majority of countries that borrowed to support public sector reform experienced improved performance in some dimensions, there were shortcomings in important areas and in overall coordination. The frequency of improvement was higher among IBRD borrowers than among IDA borrowers. Performance usually improved for public financial management, tax administration, and transparency, but did not usually with respect to civil service. Direct measures to reduce corruption- such as anticorruption laws and commissions- rarely succeeded.

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