Azerbaijan

Clay Wescott, Raj Desai () and Antti Talvitie

No 26677 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: Azerbaijan is a secular, majority-Shiite, oil and gas-rich country whose per-capita income quadrupled in real terms during the period 2004-10. While rising incomes have reduced poverty, steps towards a more secure, diversified economy are held back by a public sector that rests on vested interests, patronage-based incentive structures, and ingrained patterns of behavior that include significant rent extraction, particularly from the non-oil economy, with minimal checks and balances from Parliament, the private sector, and civil society. Bank engagement in Azerbaijan at the country level focused on areas which had government support. Some modest results have been achieved, even though in many cases modern laws and practices were adopted without adequate plans for implementation. At the project level, the Bank has supported the strengthening of project implementation units (PIUs) and tools for monitoring, and governance and institutional filters have signaled that Governance and Anticorruption (GAC) processes need to be embedded in the Bank projects. At the sector level, the Bank's work was highly relevant in supporting oil revenue transparency, primary education, roads, and the development of safeguards. It was substantially relevant in public financial management, and private sector development and procurement. Bank engagement was moderately relevant in decentralization, civil service reform, and accountability institutions.

Keywords: Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Access; to; Finance; Finance; and; Financial; Sector; Development-Banks; &; Banking; Reform; Governance-National; Governance; Transport-Transport; Economics; Policy; and; Planning; Public; Sector; Development-Public; Sector; Corruption; and; Anticorruption; Measures; Governance-International; Governmental; Organizations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-12
ISBN: 978-1-60244-206-1
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