Daniel Rogger
Daniel Rogger is a Research Economist in the World Bank’s Impact Evaluation Unit of the Development Research Group. His areas of interest are political economy, and organizational and public economics. Dan’s research aims to understand how to build organisations that effectively deliver public services. He does large scale surveys and research in collaboration with civil service organisations across the world. Dan did his PhD in economics at University College London (UCL), his Masters in Economics at the University of Cambridge, and his undergraduate degree in economics at UCL. Previously, he has worked as an Economist in the Presidency of Nigeria, an Associate Researcher for the UK’s Department for International Development, and as a PhD scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Content by Daniel Rogger
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Publication - Growth Brief
Information and innovation in the public sector
Faced with limited resources and many pressing demands, bureaucrats make difficult policy choices. Incentives and better access to quality information could transform decision making and help support innovations that lead to growth. Through its civil service, a capable state raises revenues and provides key public goods and services, using these capabilities to foster...
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Information and innovation in the public sector
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Data: Researching the impact of manager characteristics in bureaucracies
We study how the management practices bureaucrats operate under correlate with the quantity of public services delivered, using data from the Nigerian Civil Service. We have hand‐coded independent engineering assessments of 4,700 project completion rates. We supplement this with a management survey in the bureaucracies responsible for these projects, building on Bloom and...
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Blog post
Building a capable civil service in Liberia: The role of the Performance Management System
Over the past thirty years, Liberia has encountered a mix of challenges, from negotiating civil war and an Ebola epidemic to welcoming the first democratic transition of power in three-quarters of a century. The recently elected Weah administration has made governance one of the four pillars of its ‘Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development’, including a push to...
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Data: Managing bureaucracy to improve public service delivery
We study how the management practices under which public sector bureaucrats operate, correlate to the quantity and quality of public services delivered. We do so in a developing country context, exploiting data from the Nigerian Civil Service linking public sector organizations to the individual projects they are responsible for. For each of 4700 projects, we have hand...
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Project
How to increase the adoption of civil service reform? The role of training and incentives
Many developing countries suffer from ineffective public service delivery. A growing literature sheds light on reforms which can improve public service quality. For instance, existing studies focus on showing how performance‐based incentives can improve the performance of frontline civil servants working in health facilities, schools, or collecting taxes. Also, a large...
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Project
A study of the constraints to civil servant productivity in Ethiopia
Our understanding of the drivers of productivity in the public sector is limited, despite a high proportion of national income being spent through the state in many developing countries. Researchers surveyed civil servants across different levels of government in Ethiopia to assess the link between incentives and productivity in the country’s public sector. They...
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Project
Training for productivity: An experimental evaluation of civil service reform in Ghana
The Training for Productivity (TFP) project aims to improve the Ghanaian Civil Service’s capacity by designing, implementing and evaluating novel training methods for bureaucrats. The training programme will be experimentally implemented as part of broader package of training sessions coordinated by the Office of the Head of Civil Service and the Civil Service Training...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: A scientific replication in Ghana and Nigeria
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Publication - Project Report
Management and bureaucratic effectiveness: A scientific replication
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Project
Training for productivity: Relaxing the constraints to management and productivity in the civil service
Ghana’s civil service invests major resources into training its officers, and providing training is its main opportunity to improve officers’ productivity and management skills. But do these trainings effectively teach officers how to be more productive? Do officers actually use the skills they learn once they are back in their organisations? How can the Office of the...
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Publication - Project Report
Dynamics of public service delivery: Evidence from Bangladesh
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Project
The effectiveness of government bureaucracy: A study of the Ghanaian civil service
The effective functioning of the public sector is crucial for economic growth. This project, requested by the Head of Ghana’s Civil Service, assessed the link between management practices and productivity in the public sector to inform reforms. The study found that granting civil servants more autonomy is associated with more effective public organisations, but...
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Project
Researching the impact of manager characteristics in bureaucracies
High-quality bureaucracy and effective public service delivery have been shown to be fundamental ingredients of growth and development. Accordingly, the Government of Bangladesh has made a priority of improving government effectiveness and administrative capacity, as stated in their 7th five-year plan published in April 2015. In this plan for 2021, recruitment,...
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Publication - Project Memo
Managing Bureaucracy to Improve Public Service Delivery (Project Memo)
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Project
Creation of data set detailing the budgeting, implementation, and evaluation of public expenditures from Federal Government of Nigeria 2006/7 budgets
The aim of this project is to gain a better insight into the delivery of public services in the developing world. Public good provision is at the core of the infrastructure that supports an economy’s drive for growth. Water and sanitation foster health, rural roads and electrification provide the infrastructure necessary for small and medium enterprises to flourish, and...
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Blog post
Managing bureaucrats
Since its inception in the 1850s, the British Civil Service has become a cornerstone of the executive branch of the UK government, translating the policy programme of the government into practice. Its practices have evolved gradually over the decades, but it is now in the midst of a major upheaval – in 2012, the Minister for the Cabinet Office and the Head of the Civil...
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Publication - Working Paper
Management of Bureaucrats and Public Service Delivery: Evidence from the Nigerian Civil Service (Working Paper)
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Publication - Working Paper
The Life and Times of Corrupt Civil Servants: A Survey of Public Offi cials in Nigeria (Working Paper)
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Publication - Policy Brief
Lessons from a Survey of Civil Servants (Policy Brief)
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Publication - Policy Brief
Investigating the Complexity of Public Projects (Policy Brief)
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Project
Managing bureaucracy to improve public service delivery
Public service spending accounts for a substantial share of a country’s economic activity and is very important for economic growth Nigeria is ranked in the bottom decile of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index Reforming management practices can help delegate tasks away from corrupt officials Public services such as health,...