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The Marginal Rate of Corruption in Public Programs
In this article Niehaus and Sukhantankar study the effects of corruption on the scaling up of a large rural welfare program. They ask the following question: for every dollar added to an existing welfare program how much will end up in the pockets of state officials?
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2011 ACRN Research Paper Contest Winners Announced!
We are very happy to announce the results of the 2011 ACRN Research Paper contest. This contest aims to give young scholars an opportunity to take up the challenge of filling important knowledge gaps, present innovative approaches for measuring and understanding corruption and showcase new findings on what works and what does not in tackling corruption. This year’s competition was intended for young scholars who are graduate students, post-doctoral fellows or scholars who have completed their PhDs within the last three years. The contest was made possible by the generous contributions of Transparency International, the Quality of Government Institute and the Institute for Security Studies.
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China’s ‘Institutional Turn’ Towards Integrity Management
This article focuses on the gradual ‘turn’ of China’s old campaign-style anti-corruption strategy towards a more institutionalised management of integrity. The Chinese public administration has suffered from years of rampant and accelerating corruption amid the frequent political campaigns and increasingly severe sanctions against corrupt officials. While admitting that controlling corruption has become more and more challenging due to the growing complexity of corruption modes and techniques, the Chinese government finally acknowledged the lack of effectiveness of the campaign-style anti-corruption enforcement and underlined the importance of corruption prevention through the promotion of government integrity.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Call for Papers
International Conference on Asian Security
Jun 21, 2011 02:53 PM
The Asian Center of the University of the Philippines is organizing a conference to discuss pressing issues related to Asian security. We are inviting graduate and post ...
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Job Posting
IBP Programme Officer
May 13, 2011 11:11 AM
The International Budget Partnership (IBP) is based at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC. The IBP provides a range of services to help ...
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