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A comparative anaysis of fragility indices: ( J. F. Mata;S. Ziaja / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI) , 2011); Although the understanding of the security threats posed by fragile states is still highly hypothetical and merits further investigation, fragile states are often considered an ideal breeding ground f...
Assessing tax performance in developing countries: ( C. Haldenwang;M. Lvanyna / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI) , 2010); Governments, donors and international organisations need to be able to judge the performance of tax systems in a broader context of development, governance and international cooperation. The tax perfo...
An analysis of the rules and practices of disclosure by politicians: ( S. Djankov (ed);R. La Porta (ed);F. Lopez-de-Silanes (ed) / World Bank , 2009); Politicians in successful political systems should be accountable for their corrupt behavior. The principal mechanisms of such accountability include checks and balances among branches of government a...
Gauging Sierra Leone’s economic, social and political performance: ( A. Jumah (ed) / United Nations Development Programme , 2009); Sierra Leone is one of the world's poorest countries and recently emerged from civil war. This paper is a refere...
On measuring governance: framing issues for debate: ( D. Kaufmann (ed);A. Kraay (ed) / World Bank , 2007); ...
World Governance Assessment: more power to the local?: ( K. Mease;G. Hyden;M. Foresti / Overseas Development Institute, London , 2008); In the spirit of the Paris Declaration and for other reasons, political as well as technical, there is a growing interest among donors to make governance assessments more relevant to national stake...
2010: Assessing global freedom: ( A. Puddington / Freedom House , 2010); In a year of intensified repression against human rights defenders and democratic activists by many of the world’s most powerful authoritarian regimes, this index from Freedom House unsurpris...
How transparent are government budgets around the world?: ( W. Krafchik / International Budget Partnership , 2008); The Open Budget Survey seeks to provide government officials, legislators, development practitioners, civil society organizations, journalists, and researchers with an independent, comparative meas...
Supporting young fledgling nations to sustain democracy: ( E. Kapstein (ed);N. Converse (ed) / Center for Global Development, USA , 2008); In the last few years democracy promotion has gone high up on the agenda of the international community and aid agencies. It has been observed that countries like Thailand, Bolivia, Venezuela, and Rus...
the indivisibility and universality of human rights: ( P. P. Popovic (ed);O. V. Vieira (ed) / Sur - International Journal on Human Rights , 2008); This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: ...