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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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Implementing Financial Disclosure in Local Government: Content, Scope and Standardisation
According to Transparency International, "disclosure is to politics what financial statements are to business". How effective is the financial disclosure regime in South Africa, and what can be done to strengthen this potentially powerful tool? This policy brief is produced by the Governance and Corruption Division of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). It is an output of a project which aims to manage and detect conflicts of interest in public life, thereby promoting transparency and accountability in South Africa.
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A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and “Grand Theft Infrastructure”
Drawing upon the freshly expanded World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (ES), Kenny, Klein and Sztajerowska present an original paper examining three themes: corruption measurement pitfalls, corruption as efficient grease, and corruption in infrastructure. The Enterprise Survey now covers 125 countries and provides interesting insights, depicting an alternative picture from Transparency Internaional’s CPI or the World Bank’s Doing Business data – the latter portraying a de jure description of firm's environment, focusing on the institutional background.
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2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
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.
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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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Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS)
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.
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Campaign Coordinator: Global Movement for Budget Transparency and Accountability
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Anti-Corruption Specialist, Anti-Corruption Commission Project, Liberia
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World Bank Seeking Experts to Advise on Conflict of Interest Legislation Indicators
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The World Bank’s Public Accountability Mechanisms (PAM) Initiative aims at creating a set of actionable indicators to monitor transparency and good governance in public ...
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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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