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Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?
In this paper Susan Rose-Ackerman discusses what the ultimate goals of the international anti-corruption strategy ought to be and the most appropriate routes for maximising international influence in this area. First, the paper introduces the basic types of international actors involved in the area of anti-corruption. Second, the author moves on to discuss the crucial role of effective anti-corruption policies in achieving ultimate policy goals, which include aims such as efficient international markets, economic growth, poverty alleviation, government legitimacy and rebuilding political and economic order in post-conflict countries. Third, the discussion focuses on the role of international organisations in achieving these policy goals. Here, the author suggests that international actors should act in three main capacities: as information provider, international facilitator, and domestic project sponsor.
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The Role of Corruption in Peacebuilding
In this Featured Research Article commissioned by the Anti-Corruption Research Network, authors Dominik Zaum and Christine Cheng explore the challenges and complexities of combating corruption in the peacebuilding process.
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Empowerment, Corruption, Hoarding, Economic Chaos and Political Demise in Sudan
This article deals with the role of corruption in the economic future of the newly formed nation of South Sudan. The author argues that corruption and capture of crucial state and market institutions has left South Sudan extremely vulnerable and predicts devastating consequences post-secession if reform measures are not undertaken immediately. Please note that the original article is written in Arabic.
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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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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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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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Centre for Study of Civil War (CSCW)
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.
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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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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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