The World Bank Group Sanctions Process and Its Recent Reforms

The World Bank is one of the world's premier international financial institutions. It provides low-interest loans, interest-free credits, and grants to developing countries for a wide array of purposes that include investments in education, health, public administration, infrastructure, financial and private sector development, agriculture, and environmental and natural resource management, with aggregate new lending commitments of approximately $60 billion and aggregate outstanding loans and credits of $230 billion in Fiscal Year 2010. With the financial support provided by the Bank, borrowers implement projects and programs, including the procurement of goods, works, and services necessary to carry out the project or program activities. The study begins by outlining the principal features of the Bank Group's sanctions process as it exists today (part two) and sketches some the key consideration underlying reform of the Bank's sanctions process (part three). It then describes how those considerations have influenced the historical evolution of the sanctions process (part four), with particular focus on the recent changes that the Bank has adopted to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and procedural of that process (part five). Finally, it concludes by reflecting on some of the longer-term implications of the reform process to date (part six).

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Main Authors: Leroy, Anne-Marie, Fariello, Frank
Format: Publication biblioteca
Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:ABUSE, ACCOUNTABILITY, ADJUDICATION, ADMINISTRATIVE LAW, AFFILIATE, AFFILIATED COMPANIES, AFFILIATES, ANTI-CORRUPTION, ANTICORRUPTION, AUDITING, AUDITORS, AUDITS, BANKS, BEST PRACTICE, BEST PRACTICES, CIVIL LAW, CIVIL PENALTIES, COLLUSION, COLLUSIVE PRACTICE, CONFLICT OF INTEREST, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, CORRUPT, CORRUPT PRACTICE, CORRUPT PRACTICES, CORRUPTION, COURT, COURTS, CRIMINAL, CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, CUSTOMARY PRACTICE, DECLARATION, DISCRETION, DISMISSAL, DUE PROCESS, ETHICS, FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES, FORGERY, FRAUD, FRAUDULENT PRACTICE, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION, FREEDOM OF INFORMATION LAWS, GLOBAL GOVERNANCE, GOOD GOVERNANCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, INTEGRITY, INTERNAL CONTROLS, INTERNATIONAL LAW, INVESTIGATION, INVESTIGATIONS, INVESTIGATORS, JUDICIAL PROCESS, JUDICIAL PROCESSES, JUSTICE, LAWS, LAWYERS, LEGAL FRAMEWORK, LEGAL STATUS, LEGAL THEORIES, LEGISLATION, LIABILITY, LIBERTY, MALFEASANCE, MDB, MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT BANKS, MULTINATIONAL, NATIONAL LAW, NEGOTIATION, NEGOTIATIONS, OFFENSE, POTENTIAL EXPOSURE, PREDICTABILITY, PRIVACY, PROCUREMENT, PROSECUTION, PROSECUTOR, PROSECUTORS, PUBLIC FUNDS, REMEDIES, REMEDY, RULE OF LAW, SANCTION, SANCTIONS, SUBSIDIARIES, SUBSIDIARY, TRANSPARENCY, WILL, ZERO TOLERANCE,
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000333038_20111117225904
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/2373
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