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Corruption in Developing Countries
The past 10-15 years have seen an increase in anticorruption initiatives that are based on the belief that corruption may be reduced if proper incentives are implemented and focused towards politicians, bureaucrats, and civil society. These initiatives include, but are not limited to, the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, the UN convention against corruption, strengthening World Bank Group engagement on governance and anti-corruption, and increased enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In this article, Olken and Pande compare the findings of different studies in order to evaluate the validity of this belief. This includes a comparison of corruption measurement tools, efficiency costs, and ideas to curb corruption.
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The Effectiveness of Anti-Corruption Policy. What Has Worked, What Hasn’t, and What We Don’t Know
The conclusions of this study constitute an important contribution to a much needed discussion on the elements of a successful anti-corruption policy. Crucially, the study shows that in order to be effective, successful anti-corruption monitoring programmes have to meet two important requirements: firstly, they must be implemented by a party who seeks to reduce corruption, and secondly, they must be combined with a financial or non-financial incentive programme. In addition, the above study provides a set of concrete recommendations for improving the effectiveness of anti-corruption strategies that can be applied by both international and domestic policy makers.
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Predictable Corruption and Firm Investment: Evidence from a Natural Experiment and Survey of Cambodian Entrepreneurs
This paper tests a long-standing hypothesis that has achieved ‘assumption-like’ status in the literature without rigorous empirical validation, that the predictability of corruption is as important to firms as is the level of corruption. It also offers several methodological innovations in the measurement of corruption.
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Shaun McGirr
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Feb 23, 2012 12:00 AM
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Elections, Judiciary, Local Government, Global, Asia Pacific, Access to Information, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Experimental Research, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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2011 Aid Transparency Index
The 2011 pilot Aid Transparency Index collects for the first time primary data on aid transparency levels, with help from civil society organisations (CSOs) in 34 countries. The Index assesses the availability of specific information
items at organisational, country and activity level for 58
donor organisations, including bilateral and multilateral
donors, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and private foundations. It then ranks these donors by assigning
scores for whether specific aid information was published
combined with an organisational level assessment of
whether the donor is participating in the International Aid Transparency Initiative and whether
they have a Freedom of Information law (or equivalent
disclosure policy).
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2011 East Africa Bribery Index
The index aims at measuring bribery levels in both the public and private sectors in the five countries in the region - Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. In the 2011 edition, a survey was conducted with almost 13,000 randomly selected respondents in all countries between February and May 2011. The results showed that Burundi continues to be the country with the highest level of bribery (37.9%) in the region, followed by Uganda (33%) and Tanzania (31.6%). Rwanda is the least bribery prone country, with a bribery prevalence of 5.1%.
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Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World
This year's ranking and report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders. The report rankings on ease of doing business have expanded to include indicators on getting electricity. In this year's rankings Singapore leads on the overall ease of doing business, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; and Denmark.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Oct 20, 2011 11:44 AM
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Procurement, Service Delivery, Global, Anti-Corruption Laws, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Energy
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Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: What can donors do? (Sciences Po)
Developed by Bathylle Missika at Sciences Po, this course provides an overview of the fight against corruption in developing countries, mainly from the perspective of bilateral and multilateral donors’ efforts. The discussions are framed within the broader context of governance efforts in developing countries. The course looks into the many aspects of corruption (administrative vs. political corruption), the actors involved (UN, OECD, Transparency International, etc.), their strategies and tools to address this issue through Official Development Assistance (ODA). It also looks at the politics of the anti-corruption “business”.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Jan 25, 2011 03:50 PM
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Civil Society, Developement Assistance, Political Corruption, Poverty, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Asset Recovery, Conventions, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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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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