GPPi publishes report on the World Bank’s “Country Policy and Institutional Assessment”

GPPi Associate Director Julia Steets published a study titled Adaptation and Refinement of World Bank’s ​‘Country Policy and Institutional Assessment’ (CPIA) on December 12. The publication marks the conclusion of GPPi’s CPIA project which was funded by the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German Agencyy for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). Contributing to the study were Sebastian Dworack, Robert Marten and Susanne Müller. Commissioned by the BMZ and the GTZ, this study was conducted with a view to inform their position in the ongoing reform discussions relating to the CPIA. GPPi undertook this study analyzing the core characteristics of the current CPIA, discussing various reform options and spelling out concrete policy recommendations.