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Datasets
This section of the ACRN web platform will feature information – a brief description and the source - on new, interesting datasets that enable researchers to find fresh perspectives on the problem of corruption and ways to counter it.
Please note that datasets are not uploaded or stored on the ACRN platform. Rather, information on notable new datasets is provided by our registered users and contributing editors. The responsibility of intellectual property right protection lies with individuals or institutions who share the data.
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Source - Transparency International
Collection Date - May - July 2011
Description
Transparency International carried out a survey of 3,000 business people in 30 diverse countries around the world. The survey was conducted from May-July 2011 and asked business people not just for their views on bribery and corruption, but also on what works to stop corruption in the private sector and what the business community can do to put corruption out of business. An interactive website set up to showcase the findings allows users to compare the data across countries, sectors, gender of respondent and more. Please see link for more details.
URL - http://www.transparency.org/research/bps2011/
Updated on - 2012/10/12
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Procurement, Global, Access to Information, Empirical Data Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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Source - Brookings Institute
Collection Date -
Description
This interactive database of aid indicators is based on research by Brookings experts from the Development Assistance and Governance Initiative, in collaboration with others. It allows users to view and interact with a variety of indicators and measures related to international development, aid and governance, and explore the relationships among them. Examples of indicators include aid quality, aid risks and governance.
URL - http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/development-aid-governance-indicators
Updated on - 2012/07/27
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Jul 27, 2012 02:05 PM
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Developement Assistance, Poverty, Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis
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Source - DARA
Collection Date - 2010/2011
Description
Since 2007, DARA’s Humanitarian Response Index (HRI) has provided an independent assessment on how well donor governments apply the GHD Principles with the aim of improving the quality, effectiveness, transparency and accountability of governments’ aid. The HRI 2011 report indicates that government’s humanitarian aid budgets are not being maximised effectively to the detriment of vulnerable populations. The fact that most of the crises analysed were predictable reveals the international community’s inability to address chronic vulnerability by strengthening resilience and increasing capacity for prevention and preparedness, as demonstrated by the famine in the Horn of Africa. The HRI 2011 also found that gender remains more of a political commitment than a practical reality.
URL - http://daraint.org/humanitarian-response-index/humanitarian-response-index-2011/overall-donor-response/#
Updated on - 2012/03/13
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Mar 13, 2012 05:02 PM
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Aid and Humanitarian Assistance, Developement Assistance, Gender, Access to Information, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - Centre for Law and Democracy, Access Info Europe
Collection Date -
Description
The Right to Information (RTI) rating, which covers 89 countries around the world, was developed by Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy. The central idea behind the RTI Rating is to provide RTI advocates, reformers, legislators and others with a reliable tool for assessing the overall strength of the legal framework in their country for RTI. The Rating also indicates the strengths and weaknesses of the legal framework in seven different categories, namely: Right of Access, Scope, Requesting Procedures, Exceptions and Refusals, Appeals, Sanctions and Protections, and Promotional Measures. There are a total of 61 Indicators, each with a range of possible scores which in most cases is 0-2, for a possible total of 150 points. The Indicators are drawn from a wide range of international standards on the right to information, as well as comparative study of numerous right to information laws from around the world. A standardised scoring tool, based on the Indicators, was developed to ensure that the points under each Indicator were allocated consistently across different countries. The scoring tool was then applied to each of the 89 countries with right to information laws around the world by researchers at CLD and AIE. The analysis shows vast room for improvement: two thirds of countries (64%) scored in the middle range, between 60 and 100 points out of 150. Typical weaknesses were the limited scope, over-broad exceptions regimes, shortcomings in oversight and appeals mechanisms, and lack of legal requirements to promote awareness of the public's right of access to information. Please see link for more details.
URL - http://www.rti-rating.org/index.html
Updated on - 2012/01/10
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Jan 10, 2012 04:55 PM
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Civil Society, Global, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Laws, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis
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Source - The James Mintz Group
Collection Date -
Description
This interactive database compiles decades of data on violations and penalties under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. flagship legislation that makes bribery of foreign officials a crime. Since its inception, prosecutors have penalized over 200 companies under the FCPA in about 80 countries, amassing about $4 billion in penalties. The database, called Where the Bribes are Paid , allows users to see how the total penalties amassed in each country break down by sector.
URL - http://www.fcpamap.com/
Updated on - 2011/11/28
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Nov 28, 2011 03:15 PM
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Global, North America, Anti-Corruption Laws, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Energy
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Source - Transparency International
Collection Date - 5 May - 8 July 2011
Description
The Bribe Payers Index is a unique tool capturing the supply side of international bribery, specifically focussing on bribes paid by the private sector. The 2011 Bribe Payers Index is the fifth edition of the index, ranking 28 of the world’s largest economies according to the likelihood of firms from these countries to bribe when doing business abroad. It is based on the results of Transparency International’s 2011 Bribe Payers Survey. This asked 3,016 senior business executives in 30 countries around the world for their perceptions of the likelihood of companies, from countries they have business dealings with, to engage in bribery when doing business in the executive’s country. A sectoral ranking is also available which scores and ranks 19 sectors. The survey asked how often three different types of bribery were perceived to occur in each sector: firstly, bribery of low-ranking public officials; secondly, improper contributions to high-ranking politicians to achieve influence; and thirdly, bribery between private companies.
URL - http://bpi.transparency.org/in_detail/
Updated on - 2011/11/24
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Nov 24, 2011 01:40 PM
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Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy
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Source - Publish What You Fund
Collection Date -
Description
The 2011 pilot Aid Transparency Index collects for the first time primary data on aid transparency levels, with help from civil society organisations (CSOs) in 34 countries. The Index assesses the availability of specific information
items at organisational, country and activity level for 58
donor organisations, including bilateral and multilateral
donors, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and private foundations. It then ranks these donors by assigning
scores for whether specific aid information was published
combined with an organisational level assessment of
whether the donor is participating in the International Aid Transparency Initiative and whether
they have a Freedom of Information law (or equivalent
disclosure policy).
URL - http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/resources/index/2011-index/
Updated on - 2011/11/15
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fnawaz
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Nov 15, 2011 03:25 PM
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Civil Society, Developement Assistance, Global, Access to Information, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Collection Date - Annual
Description
the Ibrahim Index is the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data that provides an annual assessment of governance performance in every African country. It compiles 86 indicators grouped into 14 sub-categories and four overarching categories to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens. Topics covered by the index include: Rule of law, accountability, personal safety, participation, gender, human rights, public management, infrastructure, education and health.
URL - http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en/section/the-ibrahim-index
Updated on - 2011/11/08
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Nov 08, 2011 04:42 PM
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Civil Society, Elections, Environment, Gender, Human Rights, Judiciary, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Public Financial Management, Security, Service Delivery, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Construction
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Source - Transparency International East Africa Chapters
Collection Date - 2011
Description
The index aims at measuring bribery levels in both the public and private sectors in the five countries in the region - Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. In the 2011 edition, a survey was conducted with almost 13,000 randomly selected respondents in all countries between February and May 2011. The results showed that Burundi continues to be the country with the highest level of bribery (37.9%) in the region, followed by Uganda (33%) and Tanzania (31.6%). Rwanda is the least bribery prone country, with a bribery prevalence of 5.1%.
URL - http://tinyurl.com/ckcfdu2
Updated on - 2011/11/08
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Nov 08, 2011 04:30 PM
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Gender, Service Delivery, Africa, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Education, Health, Water
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Source - Tax Justice Network
Collection Date -
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The Financial Secrecy Index is a tool for understanding global financial secrecy, corruption and illicit financial flows. The FSI combines two measurements, one qualitative and one quantitative. The qualitative measure looks at a jurisdiction’s laws and regulations, international treaties, and so on, to assess how secretive it is. The assessment is given in the form of a secrecy score: the higher the score, the more secretive the jurisdiction. The second, quantitative, measurement attaches a weighting to take account of the jurisdiction’s size and overall importance to the global financial markets. The 2011 Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) focuses on 73 secrecy jurisdictions. These places set up laws and systems which provide legal and financial secrecy to others, elsewhere. The index reveals that the traditional stereotype of tax havens is misplaced. The FSI reveals without doubt that the world’s most important providers of financial secrecy are not small, palm-fringed islands as many suppose, but some of the world’s biggest and wealthiest countries.
URL - http://www.financialsecrecyindex.com/index.html
Updated on - 2011/10/31
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fnawaz
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Oct 31, 2011 04:50 PM
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Money Laundering, Global, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Private Sector (General), Financial Markets
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Source - ESS, Household surveys
Collection Date - 2010/2011
Description
The European Social Survey (ESS) is an academically-driven multi-country survey, which has been administered in over 30 countries to date. It has three aims - First, to monitor and interpret changing public attitudes and values within Europe and to investigate how they interact with Europe's changing institutions; Second, to advance and consolidate improved methods of cross-national survey measurement in Europe and beyond; and third, to develop a series of European social indicators, including attitudinal indicators. This fifth round of the survey covers 28 countries, which includes Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.The questionnaire includes two main sections, each consisting of approximately 120 items; a 'core' module which remains relatively constant from round to round, plus two or more 'rotating' modules, repeated at intervals. The core module aims to monitor change and continuity in a wide range of social variables, including media use; social and public trust; political interest and participation; socio-political orientations; governance and efficacy; moral; political and social values; social exclusion, national, ethnic and religious allegiances; well-being; health and security; human values; demographics and socio-economics.
URL - http://ess.nsd.uib.no/
Updated on - 2011/10/27
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Thomas Roca
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Oct 27, 2011 12:33 PM
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Civil Society, Judiciary, Local Government, Media, Organised Crime, Security, Europe and Central Asia, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Health
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Source - The World Bank
Collection Date - June 2010 through May 2011
Description
This year's ranking and report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders. The report rankings on ease of doing business have expanded to include indicators on getting electricity. In this year's rankings Singapore leads on the overall ease of doing business, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; and Denmark.
URL - http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports/global-reports/doing-business-2012
Updated on - 2011/10/20
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fnawaz
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Oct 20, 2011 11:44 AM
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Procurement, Service Delivery, Global, Anti-Corruption Laws, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Energy
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Source - The World Justice Project
Collection Date - Annual
Description
The Rule of Law Index is a quantitative assessment tool designed to offer a comprehensive picture of the extent to which countries adhere to the rule of law. The Index presents a comprehensive set of indicators on the rule of law from the perspective of the ordinary person. It examines practical situations in which a rule of law deficit may affect the daily lives of ordinary people. For example, it evaluates whether citizens can access public services without the need to bribe a government officer. The Index provides new data on the following nine dimensions of the rule of law: limited government powers, absence of corruption, order and security, fundamental rights, open government, effective regulatory enforcement, access to civil justice, effective criminal justice, informal justice.
URL - http://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index/
Updated on - 2011/09/23
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fnawaz
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Sep 23, 2011 01:04 PM
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Human Rights, Judiciary, Security, Service Delivery, Global, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, International Analysis
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Source - HSE and ZAO “Demoscope” together with Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Institute of Sociology RAS
Collection Date - 18 waves (first wave - 1992)
Description
'The Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) is a series of nationally representative surveys designed to monitor the effects of Russian reforms on the health and economic welfare of households and individuals in the Russian Federation. These effects are measured by a variety of means: detailed monitoring of individuals' health status and dietary intake, precise measurement of household-level expenditures and service utilization, and collection of relevant community-level data, including region-specific prices and community infrastructure data. Data have been collected 18 times since 1992.'
This longitudinal survey could become a valuable source of information for researchers working on the problems of petty corruption in healthcare in Russia. The section 'Medical services' of the Adult Questionannaire in almost all the waves of the survey includes a big range of questions on informal payments for healthcare.
URL - http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/rlms-hse
Updated on - 2011/07/26
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Daria Ukhova
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Aug 01, 2011 04:08 PM
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Transition Countries, Europe and Central Asia, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Health
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Source - The World Bank
Collection Date - Annual
Description
The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, the World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's flagship statistical publication and establishes the benchmark against which development progress is measured. This 15th edition of WDI in its current format, aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people’s lives around the globe. It focuses on the impact of the decision to make data freely available under an open license and with better online tools. The section introductions discuss key issues in measuring the economic and social phenomena described in the tables and charts and introduce new sources of data. It includes more than 900 indicators in more than 90 tables organized in 6 sections: World View, People, Environment, Economy, States and Markets, and Global Links. The data includes national, regional and global estimates.
URL - http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators/
Updated on - 2011/07/12
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Jul 12, 2011 02:17 PM
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Developement Assistance, Environment, Gender, Local Government, Post-conflict, Poverty, Security, Global, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and the Carribbean, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, North America, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Extractives, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy, Water
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Source - Freedom House
Collection Date - Annual
Description
Freedom in the World, Freedom House’s flagship publication, is a comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The Freedom in the World 2011 survey contains reports on 194 countries and 14 related and disputed territories. Each country report begins with a section containing the following information: population,capital, political rights (numerical rating), civil liberties (numerical rating), status (Free, Partly Free, or Not Free), and a 10-year ratings timeline.
URL - http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=351&ana_page=373&year=2011
Updated on - 2011/07/06
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fnawaz
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Jul 06, 2011 10:13 AM
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Civil Society, Human Rights, Media, Political Corruption, Transition Countries, Empirical Data Analysis, International Analysis
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Source - UNODC
Collection Date - August - October 2009
Description
This report is based on results from a sample survey conducted in rural and urban areas of Afghanistan. The survey covered 12 provincial capitals and more than 1,600 villages across the country: overall more than 7,600 people were randomly selected and interviewed. The survey was conducted between August and October 2009 and it recorded the real experiences, as reported by respondents, in terms of bribes paid and contacts with public officials in the 12 months before the survey.
URL - http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/data-and-analysis/corruption-in-Afghanistan.html
Updated on - 2011/05/03
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fnawaz
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May 03, 2011 04:15 PM
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Post-conflict, Service Delivery, Asia Pacific, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - The World Bank
Collection Date - April 2011
Description
The World Bank has recently posted a detailed database on freedom of information laws in 88 countries. This is not a rating or ranking of the countries, but the database is expected to provide valuable information for comparative research.
The database collects information about FOI laws in seven broad categories with 30 subcategories. The broad categories are: legal framework, coverage of information, procedures for accessing information, exemptions to disclosure requirements, enforcement mechanism, deadlines for release of information and sanctions for non-compliance.
URL - https://www.agidata.org/pam/ProfileListByAbc.aspx
Updated on - 2011/04/11
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fnawaz
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Apr 11, 2011 04:23 PM
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Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis
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Source - The World Bank
Collection Date - 1975 - 2009
Description
The Database of Political Institutions has more than 100 objective variables on political systems (from the number of years the executive has been in office to the competitiveness of elections to the number of political checks and balances) for more than150 countries over the period 1975-2009.
URL - http://go.worldbank.org/2EAGGLRZ40
Updated on - 2010/12/15
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fnawaz
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Dec 15, 2010 08:09 PM
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Political Corruption, Global, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - Transparency International
Collection Date - 9 December 2010
Description
With more than 91,500 respondents drawn from 86 countries and territories around the world, Transparency International’s 2010 GCB, released on 9 December 2010, finds the poor to be disproportionately burdened by bribe demands. For most people around the world, political parties, the civil service, parliaments and the police are the institutions perceived to be more affected by corruption. One out of two people interviewed consider their government’s actions to fight corruption to be ineffective, yet, there is a general belief that citizens can make a difference. Most people are willing to report a corrupt act when it occurs
URL - www.transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/gcb/2010/results
Updated on - 2010/12/09
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fnawaz
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Dec 09, 2010 05:02 PM
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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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Source - Transparency International Kenya
Collection Date - 2010
Description
Transparency International-Kenya’s East Africa Bribery Index captures citizens’ first hand experience of bribery and corruption in Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda. Findings indicate that except for Rwanda, where bribery was found to be negligible, all countries face major corruption challenges in key institutions such as the judiciary, the police and local authorities. Public service institutions were perceived as the most bribe-prone institutions, compromising access to water, electricity, health and education services.
URL - http://www.tikenya.org/documents/EABI-2010.pdf
Updated on - 2010/11/26
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fnawaz
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Nov 26, 2010 01:31 PM
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Africa, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - World Bank
Collection Date -
Description
AGI are disaggregated indicators that focus on specific aspects of governance to help guide reform and impact monitoring. This World Bank portal makes available in a one-stop-shop platform an interactive dataset composed of over 1000 actionable governance indicators from different sources. They are grouped into six broad dimensions of governance, including political accountability, checks and balances, public sector management, civil society and the media, decentralisation and local participation, and private sector interface.
URL - https://www.agidata.org/main/Home.ashx
Updated on - 2010/11/26
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fnawaz
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Nov 26, 2010 12:46 PM
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Source - Quality of Government Institute
Collection Date -
Description
This unique dataset on the structure and behaviour of public administrators is based on a web survey of 528 country experts from 58 countries around the world. It covers key dimensions of quality of government, such as politicisation, professionalisation, openness, and impartiality. The data set is expected to soon include 40 additional countries, primarily from the developing world.
URL - www.qog.pol.gu.se
Updated on - 2010/11/26
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fnawaz
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Nov 26, 2010 12:44 PM
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Global
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Source - Transparency International Bangladesh
Collection Date - 2009
Description
Complementing established assessment methodologies with innovative field experiments this research initiative takes a close and very practical look at the standards and practices governing transparency and accountability in party and campaign financing systems in Bangladesh. Findings highlight poor performance in bookkeeping, reporting, reliability of reporting, public disclosure,
and related sanctions.
URL - http://www.ti-bangladesh.org/
Updated on - 2010/11/26
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fnawaz
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Nov 26, 2010 12:21 PM
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Political Corruption, Asia Pacific, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis
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Source - UNODC
Collection Date - 2010
Description
Based on interviews with 7,600 people in 12 provincial capitals and more than 1,600 villages around Afghanistan, this UNODC survey records the experiences of corruption of Afghan citizens both in urban
and rural areas. Findings challenge common assumptions about the country: While poverty, violence and insecurity are usually portrayed as the biggest challenges confronting Afghanistan, an overwhelming
majority of Afghan people (59%) perceive corruption as their biggest concern, ahead of insecurity and unemployment.
URL - http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/Afghanistan/Afghanistan-corruption-survey2010-Eng.pdf
Updated on - 2010/11/25
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Nov 25, 2010 03:34 PM
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Single Country Analysis
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Source - Global Integrity
Collection Date - 2009
Description
Global Integrity released the latest round of its comprehensive assessment of national level anti-corruption mechanisms in 35
countries based on reports by in-country teams on more than 300 transparency and accountability indicators. The 2009 Report covers developed countries such as the United States and South Korea as well as dozens of the world’s emerging markets and developing nations, including China,Lebanon and Vietnam. Among the key findings of the study, the report indicates that despite the change of administration in the United States, significant progress has not yet been achieved in closing accountability gaps at the national level.
URL - http://report.globalintegrity.org/
Updated on - 2010/11/25
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fnawaz
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Nov 25, 2010 03:21 PM
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Global, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Transparency International
Collection Date - 2008
Description
The AEW provides the first regional overview of accountability and
transparency challenges in delivering primary education in seven African countries (Ghana, Madagascar, Morocco, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Uganda). The report draws on in-depth national assessments of the situation based on desk-studies, user surveys and service
provider interviews.
URL - http://www.transparency.org/regional_page
Updated on - 2010/11/25
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fnawaz
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Nov 25, 2010 03:18 PM
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Africa, Education
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Source - World Bank
Collection Date - 2010
Description
More countries than ever are cutting red tape and reforming their business regulations, finds the World Bank’s Doing Business 2010 analysis, the largest comparative annual assessment of business regulations around the world.
Regulatory reforms are up a significant
20% from last year according to the
analysis that looks at business regulations
and their enforcement across 183
economies.
URL - http://www.doingbusiness.org/
Updated on - 2010/11/25
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fnawaz
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Nov 25, 2010 03:13 PM
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Global, Comparative Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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Source - Bertelsmann Foundation
Collection Date - 2010
Description
The persistence of mass poverty and political marginalization in many countries is the central observation of this year’s BTI, which ranks 128 countries on political and economic management against 17 criteria.
Detailed country reports provide valuable context to the ranking.
URL - http://www.bertelsmann-transformationindex.
Updated on - 2010/11/25
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fnawaz
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Nov 25, 2010 03:10 PM
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Global, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Susan Hyde and Nikolay Marinov
Collection Date -
Description
The principal investigators introduce a unique dataset that provides in-depth information on all elections from 1996-2006 in 158 countries. This comprehensive election-level set diverges from standard cross-temporal, cross-national datasets in that it uses separate election events (the electionid variable) as the identifying variable, in contrast to the country-year structure that is generally prevalent in current work on electoral data. The nature of the dataset allows the electionid to be collapsed into required units of analysis, as well as providing the opportunity to analyse elections by type. Additionally, by avoiding the country-year structure, the NELDA dataset allows researchers to analyse variation between elections within country-years. NELDA includes over 50 substantive variables that concentrate on the presence of competition, varying electoral processes, external involvement in election processes, and characteristics that set apart democratic polities from autocratic ones. The data can prove useful for researchers studying political corruption. Overall, this dataset adds an important contribution in both its extensive coverage of democratic and autocratic elections and its structure based on election events rather than country-years. The dataset forms the foundation for the investigators' forthcoming manuscript “National Elections Across Democracy and Autocracy: Which Elections Can Be Lost?”.
URL - http://hyde.research.yale.edu/nelda/#contact
Updated on - 2010/10/30
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Alisa Voznaya
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Oct 31, 2010 09:31 PM
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Elections, Political Corruption, Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Transparency International
Collection Date - January 2009 to September 2010
Description
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) measures the perceived level of public-sector corruption in 180 countries and territories around the world. The CPI is a "survey of surveys", based on 13 different expert and business surveys. The 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index shows that nearly three quarters of the 178 countries in the index score below five, on a scale from 10 (highly clean) to 0 (highly corrupt). These results indicate a serious corruption problem. The complete ranking and analysis of the findings can be found at: http://transparency.org/policy_research/surveys_indices/cpi/2010/results Please use the link below to download the dataset.
URL - http://tinyurl.com/4ytofa8
Updated on - 2010/10/26
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fnawaz
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Oct 26, 2010 11:20 AM
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Poverty, Global, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Conventions, Empirical Data Analysis, International Analysis
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Source - Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas; Montenegro, Claudio E.
Collection Date - 1999-2007
Description
Three researchers from the World Bank have made a serious attempt to capture a country's "shadow economy" (as a percentage of GDP) for 162 countries over a 9 year period. In the paper listed below, they elucidate their methods for capturing this clandestine concept. The authors find signficant variation in the sample, as they find that developing countries have more than twice the level of a "shadow economy" of the 25 welathy, OECD countries in the sample, which they argue increases the burden of taxation and decreases the quality of public goods and services.
URL - http://tinyurl.com/3ud8bn3
Updated on - 2010/08/17
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Nicholas Charron
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Aug 18, 2010 06:35 PM
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Money Laundering, Organised Crime, Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Education, Health, Construction, Defence
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Source -
Collection Date - 1999, 2002, 2005
Description
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank Group provide survey data about the ‘business environment’ in 27 Central European and Post-Soviet countries and Turkey. The questions - answered by domestic firms - focus on issues such as: business regulation, taxation, law and order, the judiciary, infrastructure and public administration corruption. Data is availble for years 1999, 2002 and 2005.
URL - http://go.worldbank.org/Y4YAMUYFS0
Updated on - 2010/07/18
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Nicholas Charron
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Jul 20, 2010 11:25 AM
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Judiciary, Political Corruption, Public Financial Management, Transition Countries, Europe and Central Asia, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Mo Ibrahim Foundation
Collection Date - May 18, 2010
Description
The Mo Ibrahim Index of African Governance uses 84 criteria across four main pillars of safety and rule of law, participation and human rights, sustainable economic opportunity, and human development to assess the quality of governance in Africa.
URL - http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/en/mifindex/ibrahimIndex
Updated on - 2010/04/28
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Ben Clench
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May 18, 2010 03:35 PM
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Human Rights, Political Corruption, Poverty, Africa, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP)
Collection Date - 2006 - 2007
Description
The Failed and Fragile States Project aims to document country fragility through a comprehensive analysis of the multi-faceted processes of fragility. To do this the project uses extensive structural data and dynamic events analysis in combination to assess country fragility. Indicators used are clustered under six areas; governance, economics, security and crime, human development, demography, and environment. Events monitoring uses a number of international and domestic sources which are then coded using their bespoke database. Scenarios are then generated from the database to produce trend line analysis.
URL - http://www.carleton.ca/cifp/ffs.htm
Updated on - 2010/04/28
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Ben Clench
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Aug 25, 2010 06:09 PM
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Environment, Human Rights, Security, Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Source - International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
Collection Date -
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The Centre for the Study of Civil War provides a data service which replicates datasets for general use under four topic areas, namely: armed conflict, governance, resources, and economic and social data. For more information please see the website below.
URL - http://www.prio.no/CSCW/Datasets/
Updated on - 2010/04/28
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Ben Clench
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Jun 03, 2010 02:50 PM
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Post-conflict, Global, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - Vision of Humanity
Collection Date - 2007 - 2009
Description
The Global Peace Index ranks 144 countries according to 23 quantitative and qualitative indicators to assess global peace. Indicators have been selected by an expert panel with quantitative indicators scored 1-10 and qualitative indicators scored 1-5 with support from the Economist Intelligence Unit for data analysis. Indicators include areas of ongoing domestic and international conflicts, societal safety and security, and militarisation.
URL - http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/home.php
Updated on - 2010/04/27
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Ben Clench
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Human Rights, Security, Global, Empirical Data Analysis
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Source - The Fund for Peace
Collection Date - 2005 - 2009
Description
The Failed State Index analyses literature and datasets according to a framework developed to build conflict assessments and vulnerability to conflict at country level. The index is based on the use of 12 indicators around areas of social indicators, refugees, group grievance, human flight, economic indicators, economic decline, political indicators, public services, human rights, security apparatus, factionalised elites, and external intervention.
URL - http://www.fundforpeace.org/web/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=99&Itemid=140
Updated on - 2010/04/27
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Ben Clench
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May 20, 2010 05:15 PM
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Developement Assistance, Human Rights, Poverty, Security, Service Delivery, Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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