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"An era where governments have less power."
The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era — where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people...
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Roundtable discussion around the different aspects of environmental preservation from the governmental and regulatory perspective
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"Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open?"
Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to...
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Conflict is bad; compromise, consensus and collaboration are good — or so we're told. Lawyer and bioethicist Jonathan Marks challenges this conventional wisdom, showing how governments can jeopardize...
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This podcast gives an overview of key instruments of support, the pros and cons of using these, how and why governments use these instruments, and the pre-requisites and precautions involved; along...
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Governments have supported PPPs through a variety of instruments such as equity, debt, grants, guarantees, and contractual clauses pertaining to risk allocation. Many of these instruments have been...
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How can cities adapt their car-centric transportation infrastructures to support public transportation.
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"How can municipal governments engage with citizen demands?"
How can municipal governments engage with and respond to citizen demands?
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In an age of rapid urbanization, the delivery of quality public services by local governments will become more difficult and critical at the same time. The potential for e-Government to help meet...
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This series highlights initiatives led by the World Bank Group’s Governance global practice and by private sector organizations to utilize big data for effective governance. These interviews and...
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With a population of 11.2 million residents, Sao Paulo is the largest City in Brazil, the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere and the world's seventh largest city by population. The presentation...
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This course will cover how to measure and assess forest governance, with the goal of moving past measurement to improvement.
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The WB has recently developed a knowledge product to guide cloud computing adoption and conducted pilot studies for three developing countries. This webinar will share the findings and lesson learned...
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The webinar discusses whether the fiscal decentralization model that has been instrumental in decisions about structuring governance on a nationwide basis can be applied successfully in metropolitan...
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Charity Wayua put her skills as a cancer researcher to use on an unlikely patient: the government of her native Kenya. She shares how she helped her government drastically improve its process for...
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Why doesn’t the government just get out of the way and let the private sector — the “real revolutionaries” — innovate? It’s rhetoric you hear everywhere, and Mariana Mazzucato wants to dispel it. In...
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"What can governments learn from the open-data revolution?"
In this stirring talk, Beth Noveck, the former deputy CTO at the White House, shares a vision of practical openness — connecting...
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For the past 10 years, the government of Burundi has engaged in a decentralization process to strengthen social cohesion and empower local communities. Most of Burundi's local administrations, or "...
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This note is the fifth in a series of notes on developing a comprehensive policy, legal, and institution framework for public-private partnership (PPP) programs. This series is extracted from a PPIAF...
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Nearly 2.4b people worldwide lack a legal identity, they're usually the poorest members of society, and a quarter are children. They're often excluded from school, healthcare, welfare and banking...
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