Key Documents

Documents providing a paradigm for leadership and development:

• Benjamin F. Jones and Benjamin A. Olken, Do Leaders Matter? National Leadership and Growth Since World War II
• The 2005 Report of the World Bank Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa, Building Effective States, Forging Engaged Societies
• Interview of Sanjay Pradhan (Streaming Audio) on “leadership and integrity as missing link in good governance”.
  

Summaries of World Bank leadership activities:

• 2001:2004: Workshops for Leaders, and Leadership Workshops: Support for Meeting the Challenges of Transition
• 2005-2006: Recent Interventions to Build Capacity of Leaders: Deepening Bank Support for Meeting the Challenges of Transition

Documents providing examples of activities geared to:

Stabilizing fragile states:

• The Fragile States Unit Timor Leste Summary Note on the workshops that accompanied the leadership transition leading to the creation of Timor Leste
• The Burundi Leadership Training Program: A Prospective Assessment by Peter Uvin, Professor at Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, evaluating the Burundi Leadership Training Program (2001-2004)

Accelerating reforms:

• Managing the Politics of Reform, J. Edgardo Campos, Jose Luis Syquia, World Bank Working Paper n.70, 2006
• A Leadership Approach to Achieving Change in the Public Sector, the Case of Madagascar, AFTPR, January 2007

Working on ethics and integrity:

• World Ethics Forum Report?
• Kenya?
  

Video document on leadership:

• Views on leadership, and integrity expressed at the World Ethics Forum (Real Media - Streaming Audio) by: Sanjay Pradhan, Director of PRMPS, World Bank; Dele Olojede, Pulitzer Prize Winner; Huguette Labelle, Chair, Transparency International; Mary Robinson, former Prime Minister of Ireland, Director, Ethical Globalization Initiative; and Mekere Morauta, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea.