When less is more: How Serbia could deliver better justice with fewer judges
When less is more: How Serbia could deliver better justice with fewer judges In courts across Europe, there is a common refrain: “we need more judges!” Your court has a backlog? Many hands will make...
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Beauty and the beast: Comparing the law on the books with the law in practice
Who has not faced a situation wherein the law on the books in a particular country looks just beautiful but things seem to be going horribly wrong in practice? Such implementation gaps have haunted...
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The three transitions of the Western Balkans
The small, open economies of the Western Balkans* are at various stages of progress on three transitions: the transition to market economy, the transition to EU membership, and the transition to...
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How long is too long? When justice delayed is justice denied
As the saying goes, ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’ Yet, across the world, court users complain that the courts take too long. For your regular court user facing endless talk from lawyers, reams...
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How long is too long? When justice delayed is justice denied
As the saying goes, ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’ Yet, across the world, court users complain that the courts take too long. For your regular court user facing endless talk from lawyers, reams...
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Closing thoughts on the "Harnessing Digital Trade for Competitiveness and...
Digital entrepreneurs have the potential to connect to global markets like never before. Whether selling physical goods on internet platforms, or providing digital goods and services that can be...
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Also available in: Français | العربية A boat trip from Port Elizabeth to Kingstown, in the Caribbean country of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, is a one-hour trip that locals take several times a...
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Open Data for Business Tool: learning from initial pilots
Citizens in Nigeria participate in a readiness assessment exercise to identify high-priority datasets Around the world, governments, entrepreneurs and established businesses are seeing the economic...
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“Say it loud, say it clear: refugees are welcome here”
I am the World Bank’s Director for the Western Balkans, and I live in Vienna, Austria, where thousands of refugees, mostly fleeing from conflict in Syria and Afghanistan, are now straggling across the...
View ArticleTeachers matter
Why Teachers Matter Happy World Teachers’ Day! Several days ago, my colleagues and I were thinking of a way to honor and celebrate teachers. We decided to go into schools and ask students themselves...
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Invitation to apply for SAFE grants
The invitation for new SAFE Trust Fund applications is now open until 7 March 2016What is SAFE? SAFE means Strengthening Accountability and the Fiduciary Environment. It is a Trust Fund program...
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Improving opportunities for Europe’s Roma children will pay off
Eight years on from the start of the global economic crisis, close to one quarter of the European Union’s population remains at risk of poverty or social exclusion. But one group in particular stands...
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From forgotten Yugos to new engines of growth: Reviving the car industry in...
A worker at the FIAT Cars Serbia Factory in Kragujevac, Serbia Photo: bibiphoto / Shutterstock.com The former Yugoslavia was mainly known for its not-so-successful and cheap cars, primarily the Yugo....
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Securing Serbia’s Farming Future
A farmer in pepper greenhouse, Central Serbia.Photo: Jutta Benzenberg/World Bank As Serbia moves to join the European Union, smallholder farmers like Goran Matic are concerned about the challenges of...
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Court budgeting – ways to improve performance and do more with less
The European Summer is over. We’ve traded our sunscreen for spreadsheets and it’s budget time. Across Europe, Ministries of Justice, Courts, and Judicial Councils are preparing their budget plans for...
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People’s living standards – do numbers tell the whole story?
Co-authored by Maria Davalos and Indhira Santos Numbers don’t lie. That’s why, in our day-to-day lives, we rely heavily on numbers from household surveys, from national accounts, and from other...
View ArticlePositive competition drives better performance
Serbia Launches Court Rewards Program video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player We all know that people respond to incentives. Even in the public sector – where pay and conditions are...
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Assessing disaster risk in Europe and Central Asia – what did we learn?
Heavy rains on June 13-14, 2015 caused a 1 million cubic-meter landslide to flow down the Vere River valley and damage the capital city of Tbilisi, Georgia. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) Across the...
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From forgotten Yugos to new engines of growth: Reviving the car industry in...
A worker at the FIAT Cars Serbia Factory in Kragujevac, Serbia Photo: bibiphoto / Shutterstock.com The former Yugoslavia was mainly known for its not-so-successful and cheap cars, primarily the Yugo....
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From forgotten Yugos to new engines of growth: Reviving the car industry in...
A worker at the FIAT Cars Serbia Factory in Kragujevac, Serbia Photo: bibiphoto / Shutterstock.com The former Yugoslavia was mainly known for its not-so-successful and cheap cars, primarily the Yugo....
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