The goal of the Governance Program , in collaboration with the rest of the World Bank Group and outside partners, is to help countries in developing effective programs to improve governance of their public institutions, capacity-building and efficiency in public sector performance and service delivery. Various attempts of reforms by industrialized and developing countries have generated a knowledge bank on the current best practices. Through various courses and training workshops , our Governance Program disseminates this valuable knowledge.
Corruption hampers economic growth, discourages public and private investment and worsens poverty.
It also burdens the poor disproportionately. Thus reducing corruption is an integral part of a development framework to help countries eliminate poverty. Our Governance Program frontiers in the development of an empirically based approach to anti-corruption. It designs diagnostic survey instruments for collecting information from households, enterprises and public officials. The aim of the surveys is to measure the economic and social costs of corruption, the quality of public service delivery and the business environment, and to identify various sources of public sector vulnerabilities.