This guidance note was prepared by International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group staff under a project undertaken with the support of grants from Financial Sector Reform Strengthening Initiative, (FIRST).The aim to deliver report that provides emerging market developing economies roadmap in their local currency bond markets (LCBMs). will also inform technical assistance missions advisi...

E-government is a promising technological innovation to improve government performance in developing countries. The potential benefits of e-government include less corruption, increased transparency, greater convenience, revenue growth, and cost reduction. However, most egovernment projects failed because of its complexity and its inherent political process. Meanwhile as young fields e-governme...

E-government has increasingly been adopted globally by governments in order to enhance the provision of services to citizens and promote inclusive governance. It is perceived that E-government has the potential to significantly improve government-citizen interaction by providing equal access to government services for all citizens. Lack of equal access to E-government services has emerged as on...

Electronic government (e-government) initiatives are in their early stages in many developing countries and faced with various issues pertaining to their implementation, adoption and diffusion. Like many other developing countries, the e-government initiative in the state of Qatar has faced a number of challenges since its inception in 2000. Using a survey based study this paper describes citiz...

It is undeniable that the introduction of e-government has had a significant impact on developing countries, like Malaysia. This paper seeks to explore empirically the implementation of Malaysian e-government since the initiation of the policy in 1996. Therefore, identifying the characteristic challenges that the Malaysian government faces, which impede the progress of e-government is the overa...

Recent studies of e-government activity have highlighted adoption and diffusion issues as important subjects for rating e-government success. However in developing countries inadequate resources and limited citizens’ capabilities regarding new e-government have resulted in low diffusion and adoption of e-government services. This paper examines the role of intermediaries, which can be played by...

Many developing countries are in the initial phases of adopting electronic government (e-government) programs to improve public services and deliver them as efficiently and conveniently as possible. Our experience with a variety of governments throughout the developing world at different stages of implementing e-government programs with citizens (G2C), businesses (G2B), and other entities of go...