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Operational Work

By leveraging the full range of financial instruments available to the WBG (investment/project lending, results and policy-based lending, technical assistance, trust funds, grants, and reimbursable advisory services) global and regional teams work with governments to:

  • Strengthen justice institutions, including by reforming the legal framework; reengineering processes to improve workflow efficiency; improving case management; strengthening human resources; and building capacity.
  • Promote legal empowerment, including by strengthening legal aid systems, establishing advisory and mediation services and conducting legal literacy campaigns.

Some recent global work:

2020 - 2023

To support addressing justice gaps, and their negative impacts on poor and vulnerable persons

The program will produce technical guidance on trends in the use of technology to promote access to justice and develop a framework for governments to assess their use of technology, as well as to shape and promote policy and regulatory reforms.

  • TTL: Paul Prettitore
     

2020 - 2021

An overview of the last 25 years of lending and analytical work on security and justice related interventions.

  • TTL: Bernard Harborne Caroline Vagneron

2016 - 2021

Under the Global Financial Infrastructure Program the secured transactions team has developed judicial training materials with a focus on secured transactions legal reforms for both Civil and Common Law regimes. The training program is targeted to judiciary in jurisdictions where IFC has secured transactions legal reform project underway. The 2.5 day training has been delivered in Ghana, Malawi, Zambia, Kenya, Mongolia thus far.

  • TTL: Elaine MacEachern



2021

Literature review on the impact of justice on development outcomes (economic growth, conflict and violence, and trust in institutions), as well as on the data revolution in justice systems.

  • TTLs: Daniel L. Chen, Manuel Ramos



Huang, Z., Zhang, X., Wang, R., & Chen, D. (2022). Deep IV in Law: Appellate Decisions and Texts Impact Sentencing in Trial Courts (Elements in Law, Economics and Politics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009296403

This paper uses the random assignment of cases to judges to adapt a deep IV framework for estimating the causal effects of legal rulings.

  • TTL: Daniel Chen

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Contact

  • Public Administration and Institutional Reforms Unit
    Roby Senderowitsch, Practice Manager, Governance Global Practice
  • Global Program on Justice and Rule of Law
    Erica Bosio, Program Manager, Global Program on Justice and Rule of Law