PSIA Examples from Countries

This section presents examples of PSIA by:

Themes (there is some overlap of countries among theme categories):

• Privatization of SOEs (including Public Private Partnerships and concessions)
• Trade liberalization
• Utility  reforms and tariff increases
• Agricultural liberalization
• Natural resource management (e.g. irrigation, mining, and forestry)
• Land titling and land reforms
• Tax policy reforms and fiscal decentralization
• Labor market liberalization
• Social sectors and social protection

Regions:

• Sub-Saharan Africa
• East Asia and Pacific
• Eastern Europe and Central Asia
• Latin America and the Caribbean
• Middle East and North Africa
• South Asia

In addition, 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, published in July 2006. This volume provides lessons and examples of implementation of Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) of reforms. Case studies presented illustrate the spectrum of sectors and policy reforms that can be informed with PSIA, the range of analytical tools and techniques that can be used for PSIA, and 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

We invite readers and practitioners to send us any other examples of PSIA. All materials and comments can be sent to povertynet@worldbank.org.

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