Country Experience

Within the World Bank, the top five sectors in which PSIA has been undertaken so far are, in descending order:

• Utility sector
• Public sector
• Social sector
• Macroeconomic sector
• Agricultural sector

These together account for approximately 73% of all PSIA.

The current breakdown of PSIA within the World Bank according to region is as follows:

• Africa - 39%
• Latin America and the Caribbean - 26%
• Europe and Central Asia - 14%
• East Asia and Pacific - 9%
• South Asia - 7%
• Middle East and North Africa - 5%

Aline Coudouel, Anis Dani and Stefano Paternostro produced a volume on Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms: Lessons and Examples of Implementation- A series of case studies illustrating PSIA in agriculture, energy, utilities, social sectors, taxation, and macro-economic modeling, which was published in July 2006.

This volume provides lessons and examples of implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of reforms. These case studies presented illustrate the spectrum of sectors and policy reforms that can be informed with PSIA, including agriculture, energy, utilities, social sectors, taxation reform, as well as macro-economic modeling. They also illustrate the range of analytical tools and techniques that can be used for PSIA. Finally, they teach lessons on how the process of implementing PSIA is an important determinant of the eventual use of the results for policy design. You can access the chapters by clicking on each title below:

1. Lessons from the Implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reforms
2. Nicaragua: The Impact of the Fiscal Equity Law Reform
3. Burkina Faso: A Macro-Economic Approach to Analyze Cotton Sector Reform
4. Mozambique: School fees and Primary School Enrollment and Retention
5. Sri Lanka: Welfare Reform
6. Europe and Central Asia: Power Sector Reform
7. Rwanda: Electricity Tariff Reform
8. Ghana: Electricity Tariff Reform
9. Albania: Decentralization and Water Sector Privatization
10. Romania: Mining Sector Reform
11. Ghana: Effects of Increases in Petroleum Product Prices
12. Malawi: Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation Reform
13. Tajikistan: Cotton Farmland Privatization
14. Tanzania: Reforms of the Coffee and Cotton Crop Boards

Below are links to see completed PSIA and summaries of selected PSIA. More cases are added as they become available. We invite readers and practitioners to send us any other examples of PSIA. All materials and comments can be sent to psia@worldbank.org.

• Selected completed PSIA
• Summary sheets of selected PSIA

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