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Welcome to the World Bank's new blog on governance and anti-corruption (GAC). Governance for Development aims to provide a forum among World Bank Group staff and the wider development community engaged in the governance endeavor for debate, reflection and experience-sharing on the implications of GAC-mainstreaming for development work.
The Governance & Anticorruption Knowledge and Learning Portal is the primary destination for GAC-related knowledge-sharing and learning at the World Bank Group.
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The quality and availability of policy advice to state sector decision makers impacts considerably on the effectiveness of the state at any level of development. This has often been downplayed in global discussion of Public Sector Management where the emphasis has been understandably on service delivery and improved governance. The money spent on policy advice is small in relation to any state budget but it is high powered money if it is improving the efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery.