Republic of Poland

The Polish government is making good progress with implementing the ambitious Budget System Reforms (BSR) program, first approved by the Council of Ministers (CoM) in 2016. The government demonstrates a high level of commitment to these reforms and is making significant progress in implementing the recommendations of earlier FAD missions with the support of the resident advisor.

Resident Advisor General Intelligence, Emotional Intelligence, Personality Dimensions, and Internal Belief Characteristics as Predictors of Rated Performance

Resident Advisors (RAs) have a significant hand in helping students adjust and thrive in college life. Given the importance of selecting high-performing RAs, this study sought to examine how well various measures of intelligence (e.g., general, emotional) in addition to personality and additional “internal belief” characteristics predict performance in the RA position, using hierarchical regression analyses. General intelligence, emotional intelligence, personality dimensions, and “internal beliefs” survey data were obtained from 36 university RAs. Performance data were obtained from self-reports by the RAs and also from 190 resident students rating their RAs. RA emotional stability, conscientiousness, and confidence in ability as an RA were found to be predictive of rated performance. Scores of emotional intelligence, but not general intelligence, were found to be significantly positively correlated with RA performance. However, emotional intelligence did not have incremental validity above the contribution of other measures. Implications for improving the current process of RA selection at colleges and directions for future research are discussed.

Democratic Republic of Congo - Evaluation of the Technical Assistance Program (May 2001 to April 2004) and of Areas for Further Assistance to the Central Bank of Congo

This report discusses the results of the evaluation of the MFD technical assistance program with the BCC. The evaluation covered the period May 2001-April 2004 and focused on foreign exchange and monetary operations, internal audit, accounting, banking supervision. It was conducted during December 14-17, 2006 in conjunction with an MFD advisory mission. The mission examined the implementation of this program by two (2) resident experts (a general advisor to the Governor and a resident advisor responsible for internal audit), three (3) multitopic missions, and ten (10) short-term expert visits.1