The Bank has made significant efforts since the mid-1990s to highlight the harmful effect of corruption on development and has developed a number of mechanisms to help countries improve governance and fight corruption. However, progress on outcomes has been slow. It should be noted at the outset that improving governance is a complex, long-term process. All evidence shows that the quality of governance is strongly correlated with broader measures of development (in levels), suggesting an interdependence, so that anti-corruption initiatives in the developing world will have to be a part of, and dependent on, each country's broad, complex, and long-term state-building process, supported by a strong commitment by developed countries to tighten their policies as well. This note summarizes suggestions for enhancing the Bank's work on helping countries deal with poor governance and corruption and in ensuring that funds disbursed by the World Bank are protected from abuse. Its purpose is to inform the ongoing discussions at the Bank on its governance and anti-corruption strategy. The findings are generally anchored in past evaluations described in the attached note. New evaluations are under way in the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) on governance and public sector reform, legal and judicial reform, decentralization, and doing business indicators that will shed deeper light on these complex issues.corporate stance toward governance and anti- corruption.
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