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Extensive dialogue is needed, particularly for reforms that meet resistance, to facilitate better cooperation and implementation.

Project Number: 41544-022, 41544-082, 41544-084
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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No new lessons

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Financial crises may pressure a government to initiate policy reforms, and provide opportunities for development partners to introduce international best practices through policy-based loans. A key challenge in this context is to ensure that reforms introduced in response to emergency conditions are sustained in the post-crisis period. For the program, implementation of policy actions progressed as planned, and tranche 2 policy actions were achieved ahead of schedule, illustrating the broad political and institutional commitment to continued and sustainable reforms.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Policy reforms are largely politically driven. The involvement and roles of government, stakeholders and politicians and the benefits to each party are important considerations in the design and implementation of policy-based loans. With a change in government in 2013, actions initiated under the program could have been altered, reversed or subject to delays or resistance. However, the program initiatives were fully endorsed by the new government, demonstrating that the program was well thought out and designed to transcend politics.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Policy-based loans can be successfully designed to provide an integrated approach to policy reforms by (a) leveraging constructive policy dialogue, (b) incorporating tailored policy interventions, and (c) ensuring implementation support and capacity development through TA

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Execution of pilot projects is valuable for (a) assessing ease of implementation, adaptability and potential for full-scale implementation; and (b) for identifying new potential bottlenecks and areas requiring further reforms. The successful pilot testing of a new property valuation method (PVM) demonstrated the potential for substantially increasing local revenues from property taxes as anticipated, but also contributed to potential revisions of the outdated tax laws.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Carefully aligning objectives and outputs of ADB program loans with related TA can help increase effectiveness and sustainability, and ensure efficient implementation of both ADB interventions and ADB TA recommendations. By incorporating related TA deliverables into the program design, the program helped ensure high-level government commitment to policy reforms and accelerate implementation of highly relevant TA recommendations, which may otherwise not have received the same level of attention and commitment.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Active stakeholder consultations during both program inception and implementation are imperative for creating a strong sense of government ownership, and ensuring commitment by all stakeholders to achieving the required policy actions under ADB program loans. Policy actions must be thoroughly assessed, clearly defined, relevant, and achievable within the required time frame, in particular when quick release of funds is critical for urgent budget support in crisis situations.

Project Number: 46371-001
Project Name: Strengthening Economic Management Program
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Progress fairly steady but slow. Implementation of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) has been satisfactory but has often taken longer than anticipated, particularly in the area of legislative reform. The number of policy actions and reforms monitored through the EFRP has varied greatly each year - 49 in 2010, 31 in 2011, 77 in 2012, and 29 in 2013.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Benefits of dialogue and tight focus. The tight focus of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) and the ADB policy matrix has helped to strengthen ownership by the government. The CEWG (core economic working group) policy dialogue contains three main elements: (i) discussions on the design and implementation of the EFRP policy matrix, (ii) regular CEWG meetings, and (iii) the annual joint review missions. Policy dialogue was anchored on the EFRP matrix with its objectives of strengthened PFM, budget reform, and economic growth.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Use of country systems. The CEWG (core economic working group) process has helped to channel a growing share of development partner assistance through government systems and as a result reduce transaction costs over a narrow front of activity, and make greater use of country systems in line with development partner commitments. In 2009 - 2013, the portion of recurrent and development expenditures through budget support increased. Recurrent budget grants comprised 5.2% of total revenue and grants in 2009 and rose to 9.6% in 2013.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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Country ownership is critical to successful implementation of the EFRP. The effectiveness of the EFRP (Economic and Financial Reform Program) and the CEWG (core economic working group) mechanism has reflected the strong leadership of the minister of finance and his permanent secretary; support from the prime minister, other ministers, and senior government officials; and the commitment of development partners to support these processes.

Project Number: 46497-001
Project Name: Economic and Financial Reform Program
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It is problematic to use a country's overall position in the Doing Business report to monitor progress in improving the business environment and overall competitiveness. The report has been subject to criticism and methodological problems have been identified. Its usefulness for monitoring progress in similar programs lies more in monitoring the country's performance over time - particularly in indicators that are not sensitive to the representative case used by the World Bank team - rather than measuring progress against other economies.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Despite an improvement in the business environment, firms in the Kyrgyz Republic have had limited progress in developing new productive capabilities

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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Implementation of institutional reforms under the program was more effective and efficient when there was an adequate and detailed blueprint with clear and measurable results indicators, as well as where project-type implementation arrangements were in place to facilitate the change process (e.g., the business registration system or the new inspection process for tax administration were supported by detailed blueprints and financed through investment projects). The $2.9 million grant approved under the program cluster was thus very useful.

Project Number: 41544-022
Project Name: Investment Climate Improvement Program
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