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How Context Matters for Development Effectiveness - A Study into Social Norms and Heterogeneous Impacts How can we use social norms better to make anti-corruption interventions more effective? Thomas de Hoops’ PhD Thesis on How context Matters for Development Effectiveness argues that the influence of social norms on development programmes should not only be acknowledged, but analysed as such. His work suggests interesting implications for thinking anti-corruption initiatives. Read More...
Curbing Corruption and Enhancing Trust in Government: Some Lessons from Singapore and Hong Kong Read More...
Patronage and Decentralisation: The Politics of Poverty in India In this study, the author attempts to explain the nature of patronage linkages at the sub-national level, using data from villages in Indian states. Sadanandan proposes a theoretical framework that examines linkages between varied levels of devolved governance and patronage politics. He tests his hypotheses using a unique subnational measure of patronage in India and finds support for his theoretical model. Read More...
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World Development Indicators 2011 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. Read More...
Corruption in Afghanistan: Bribery as reported by the victims 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. Read More...
Posted by fnawaz at May 03, 2011 04:15 PM |
Transparency in Political Finance in Bangladesh 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. Read More...
 
Courses (4)
Politics and Corruption (University of Chittagong, Bangladesh) This course has been offered to the 4th year B.S.S. Honours students in the department of Political Science at the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh, since 2006. Developed by Professor Muhammad Yeahia Akhter, it looks at global and domestic trends in political corruption and their impact on development, with a special emphasis on Bangladesh. Read More...
Posted by fnawaz at Oct 03, 2010 05:30 PM |
Corruption and Anti-Corruption (Policy & Governance, Australian National University) This 5 day intensive course looks at the theory and practice of corruption, and the design of agencies and campaigns to combat it. It is designed and taught with the New South Wales independent Commission Against Corruption, the first such agency created in Australia. It draws on research done in the Crawford School on Corruption in the Pacific with the NGO Transparency International. It also draws on research done by the ICAC on the effectiveness of its prevention activities, and on anti-corruption expertise within in the Federal government. Read More...
Posted by fnawaz at Aug 23, 2010 05:33 PM |
Corruption and Anti-Corruption (Australian National University) A graduate level course at the School of Philosophy, this course aims to give students a good theoretical understanding of the ethical issues informing central and current understanding of corruption and anti-corruption, and of some key philosophical issues of importance to applied ethics more generally. Read More...
Posted by fnawaz at Aug 23, 2010 04:13 PM |
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