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In 2000 more than 180 countries committed to a set of highly visible development priorities to be achieved by 2015. Known as the Millennium Development Goals ...
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Research Article
Academic Collusion
In his article, Kirill Titaev turns to a problem that is well-known to any lay Russian citizen - corruption and substandard quality in higher education. This problem is also familiar to many people living and studying in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, as well as in a number of other developing countries, such as, India. The author limits the scope of his inquiry to a specific type of corrupt behaviour in universities - allowing students with little or no knowledge of a subject to pass exams, which often involves the practice of 'voluntary' bribes.
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Research Article
Anti-Corruption: The Indirect 'Big-Bang' Approach
In this article, Rothstein argues that in countries where corruption is wide-spread and systemic, incremental institutional changes based on the advice from the international “good governance regime” are unlikely to work. Thus adding such new instituions as 'anti-corruption agency', or increasing transparency in the policy-making process, is unlikley to lead to any systematic decrease in corruption becasue they are based on the assumption that corruption is a 'principle agent problem' - that is to say that corruption exists due to an asymmetry in information, and if only the everyday citizens simply knew what the corrupt policy-makers were doing, they could choose a cleaner alternative. Rothstein argues that in many cases, such an alternative does not exsist and that corruption should be seen more as a 'collective action problem', thus requiring a major "big bang" type of reform. He illustrates an example of such a reform based on the case of 19th century Sweden.
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Civil Society, Elections, Judiciary, Media, Political Corruption, Transition Countries, Global, Citizen Initiatives, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Education, Health, Defence
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Research Article
Measuring Quality of Government and Sub-National Variation
In January, 2011, a report, funded by the EU Commission for Regional Development was published by several scholars at the Quality of Government Institute. In this study, new data was produced at the regional level for 172 NUTS ( Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) regions in the EU for 18 countries from a survey of 34,000 EU in which respondents were asked questions on the quality, impartiality and level of corruption in three key public sector services: education, health care and law enforcement in their region. An index was generated from the survey data, and combined with several national level indicators from the World Bank Governance Indicators, the 'EU QoG Index' (EQI) is now freely available for researchers interest in investigating aspects of governance and corruption at the sub-national level within the EU. On top of the quantitative data provided in the report, 10 qualitative cases studies were also done in several countries/regions with wide within-country variation, such as Italy, Spain and Belgium, where the authors detail several key common institutional charactoristics found in high/low performing regions.
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Research Article
Public Opinion Survey Finds Corruption is on the Rise
A recent survey released by Transparency International finds that corruption is on the rise, according to more than 91,000 people surveyed in 86 countries and territories. Six out of every 10 people surveyed reported that corruption has worsened in the last three years. In North America and Europe, the figures were 67 per cent and 73 per cent (respectively).
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Civil Society, Poverty, Service Delivery, Global, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Education, Health, Energy, Water
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Best of: Robert Klitgaard
Laxenburg,
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Jul 10, 2013 09:00 AM to
Jul 11, 2013 05:00 PM
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Corporate Governance, Civil Society, Money Laundering, Political Corruption, Global, Anti-Corruption Education, Anti-Corruption Laws, Asset Recovery, Law Enforcement, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives
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3rd Global Conference on Transparency Research HEC
Paris,
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Oct 24, 2013 10:55 AM to
Oct 26, 2013 10:55 AM
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Corporate Governance, Civil Society, E-Government, Elections, Procurement, Public Financial Management, Global, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Audit, Experimental Research, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy, Water
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Job Posting
Research Assistant - Europe Research Center
The selected candidate will work in close cooperation with and report to the Executive Director of the Europe Research Center of a major US Business School. He/She will participate in research projects and company case studies in all disciplines of management and throughout Europe. This position is based in Paris with frequent travel throughout Europe.
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Resources and Trainings
UNDP online course - Essentials on Anti-Corruption and Human Development
The UNDP Virtual School is launching a new 10-week online course, “Essentials on Anti-Corruption and Human Development” in September 2011. This course is the first UNDP training initiative that provides analytical and practical tools on anti-corruption from a human development perspective and promotes a comparative analysis of corruption practices around the globe.
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Course
Corruption: Global Perspectives (Rutgers University)
With the World Bank estimating that globally about $1 trillion per year is paid in bribes, and that this illegality leads to poor economic performance and human rights violations, this course examines the phenomenon of corruption, identifies the contexts within which it flourishes, explores means of measuring it, and analyses the opportunity structure for corruption. The course also focuses on corruption control, and co-operative arrangements which aim to prevent and contain corruption.
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