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Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) : Reviewing the Link with In-Country Policy and Planning Processes - Synthesis ReportThe synthesis report concerns to go beyond a summary of the country studies to provide lessons and recommendations on how to further improve Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) effectiveness. To do so, it draws on findings from country case studies, the literature and recent internal Bank reviews (World Bank 2006, 2008) on PSIA. The synthesis is structured in three parts. Section two reviews the role of PSIA in country work drawing on internal guidance from the Bank and the wider literature. It introduces the PSIA framework and the main elements of an effective PSIA. Section two ends with a presentation of the review framework and the approach to sampling and methodology for the country studies. Section three presents the bulk of the review findings and lessons learned with a focus on lessons for embedding PSIA into country processes. Section four addresses the future of PSIA with recommendations aimed at: (i) improving the influence that PSIA has on policy and planning processes in-country, and (ii) ensuring that it is applied more routinely by partner governments and Bank programs.
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The Impact of Economic Policies on Poverty and Income Distribution : Evaluation Techniques and ToolsDevelopment is about fundamental change
 in economic structures, about the movement of resources out
 of agriculture to services and industry, about migration to
 cities and international movement of labor, and about
 transformation in trade and technology. Social inclusion and
 change-change in health and life expectancy, in education
 and literacy, in population size and structure, and in
 gender relations-are at the heart of the story. The policy
 challenge is to help release and guide these forces of
 change and inclusion. But how can policymakers assess
 whether what they have done, or what they are doing, is
 right? Since the 1970s public economics has placed the
 serious analysis of growth at the center of its agenda. It
 has shown how to integrate growth and distribution - in
 simple terms, the size of the cake, and the distribution of
 the cake-rigorously into the discussion of public policy,
 both theoretically and empirically.
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Poverty and Social Impact Analysis of Reform : Lessons and Examples from ImplementationPoverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) is an approach used increasingly by governments, civil society organizations, the World Bank, and other development partners to examine the distributional impacts of policy reforms on the well-being of different stakeholders groups, particularly the poor and vulnerable. PSIA has an important role in the elaboration and implementation of poverty reduction strategies in developing countries because it promotes evidence-based policy choices and fosters debate on policy reform options. This publication presents a collection of case studies that illustrate the spectrum of sectors and policy reforms to which PSIA can be applied; it also elaborates on the broad range of analytical tools and techniques that can be used for PSIA. The case studies provide examples of the impact that PSIA can have on the design of policy reforms and draw operational lessons for PSIA implementation. The case studies deal largely with policy reforms in a single sector, such as agriculture (crop marketing boards in Malawi and Tanzania and cotton privatization in Tajikistan); energy (mining sector in Romania and oil subsidies in Ghana); utilities (power sector reform in Ghana, Rwanda, and transition economies, and water sector reform in Albania); social sectors (education reform in Mozambique and social welfare reform in Sri Lanka); taxation reform (Nicaragua); as well as macroeconomic modeling (Burkina Faso).