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Corruption and Climate Governance
This Featured Research article takes an in-depth look at interesting avenues of research in the emerging area of corruption and climate governance.
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Anticorruption Commissions: The “Hong Kong Model” Revisited
Over the past 15 years the use of anticorruption commissions (ACCs) has diminished significantly. The reason is that both academics and leading donor organizations have discouraged their use for what appears to be unsubstantiated reasons. Conversely, this paper argues against contemporary thought and proclaims that ACCs should be established more frequently in order to reduce corruption. The author has practitioner experience as former Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in Hong Kong. The paper is essentially divided into three sections, 1) the reasons why ACCs have been discouraged; 2) a detailed description of the ICAC; and 3) a negation of the reasons used by many contemporary academics and donor organizations to discourage ACCs.
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Andrew P Guth
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Jun 20, 2011 03:51 PM
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Aid and Humanitarian Assistance, Civil Society, Developement Assistance, Judiciary, Media, Political Corruption, Global, Asia Pacific, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Education, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Citizen Initiatives, Law Enforcement, Whistleblowing, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, International Analysis
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Exploring the impact of foreign aid on corruption: has the "Anti-Corruption Movement" been effective?
This unique study empirically assesses how the Anti-Corruption Movement (ACM) has impacted official development assistance (ODA) and consequently corruption levels of recipient countries. It makes a significant contribution in assessing the vastly complex effects of the ACM by theoretically distinguishing and empirically testing the impact of ODA on corruption by disentangling its effects over time and by donor type.
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2011 Humanitarian Response Index
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.
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Corruption, Conflict and Peacebuilding (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
This course is a module of Tufts University Graduate Program. It looks at the nexus between conflict, corruption and peace as a cutting-edge issue in post-conflict state building. The course provides a comprehensive grounding in the basics of the corruption literature, reviews current approaches to anti-corruption measures at the policy and practice level, provides insights into how corruption and anti-corruption concepts can be applied to conflict environments.
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Farzana Nawaz
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May 31, 2010 12:50 PM
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Aid and Humanitarian Assistance, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Post-conflict, Poverty, Global, Africa, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Extractives
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