Reports and Analytical Advisory Activities

We carry out analytical studies to support the governments in advancing decentralization. Below is the list of selected studies:

Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Bhutan
India
Maldives
Nepal
Pakistan
Sri Lanka

Afghanistan

• Service Delivery and Governance at the Sub-national Level
• Investing in Afghanistan's future: a strategy note on the Education System in Afghanistan
• State building, sustaining growth, and reducing poverty : a country economic report
• Subnational Administration in Afghanistan
• Reforming Fiscal and Economic Management in Afghanistan
• Afghanistan all Analytical and Advisory Activities 

Bangladesh

• Taming Leviathan
• Bangladesh all AAAs

Bhutan

• Bhutan Country economic memorandum
• Bhutan all AAAs

India

• The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in South Asia
• Local Organizations in Decentralized Development
• Urban Finance and Governance Review
• State Fiscal Reforms in India
• Uttar Pradesh State Financial Accountability Assessment
• Orissa State Financial Accountability Assessment
• Karnataka State Public Finance Management and Accountability Study
• Fiscal Decentralization to Rural Governments in India
• Overview of Rural Decentralization in India
• Inclusion and Local Elected Governments:The Panchayat Raj System in India
• Community-Level User Groups in Three World Bank-Aided Projects: Do They Perform as Expected?
• Decentralization and Accountability: Are Voters more Vigilant in Local than in National Elections?
• Karnataka : financing education in the context of economic restructuring
• Poverty in India - the Challenge of Uttar Pradesh
• Expanding and improving upper primary education
• Policies to reduce poverty and accelerate sustainable development
• Towards rural development and poverty reduction
• Water resources management sector review : initiating and sustaining water sector reforms
• India all Analytical and Advisory Activities

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Maldives

• Maldives all Analytical and Advisory Activities

Nepal

• Nepal - Towards a Sustainable Approach for Poverty Reduction and Decentralization
• Financial accountability in Nepal
• Priorities and strategies for education reform
• Nepal all Analytical and Advisory Activities

Pakistan

• Devolution in Pakistan
• Country Financial Accountability Assessment Project
• Development policy review - a new dawn?
• A Framework for Civil Service Reform in Pakistan
• Pakistan Reforming Punjab's Public Finances and Institutions
• Reforming Provincial Finances in the Context of Devolution: An Eight Point Agenda
• Pakistan Analytical and Advisory Activities

Sri Lanka

• Country Financial Accountability Assessment
• Recapturing missed opportunities
• Sri Lanka all Analytical and Advisory Activities

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