Accountability
- Family, ethnicity and religion as forces of accountability in Africa
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This paper explores and identifies a core set of beliefs and values – concerning power, accountability and social morality – that are widely observed across sub-Saharan Africa that have proven extremely durable and remain powerful drivers of behaviour. Based on this it questions how might development efforts be redirected so that they stop working against, and start to build upon, the extant notions of moral obligation and interpersonal accountability in the region?
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- Assessing the impact of transparency and accountability initiatives
- ( R. Carlitz / Department for International Development, UK , 2012)
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Transparency of budget process has, in the last two decades, become one of the pillars of good governance. However, have budget-related transparency and accountability initiatives (TAIs) been effec...
- Exploring the origins and processes of the African Peer Review Mechanism
- ( South African Institute of International Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) , 2010)
- The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is a tool designed to promote good governance on the continent. It was created when the African Union, the New Partnership for Africa’s Development and t...
- Critiquing and contextualising the corruption concept
- ( M. Gephart (ed) / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2009)
- In the recent past, international organisations, governments,non-governmental organisations and academics have been paying increasing attention to corruption. There was initially consensus that corrup...
- Tax collection: a powerful lens for assessing state legitimacy
- ( J DiJohn / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE , 2010)
- The process of tax collection is one of the most powerful lenses in political economy to assess the distribution of power in a polity. Indeed, there is a long history of thinking in political economy ...
- Observance of the Rule of Law in Mozambique
- ( C. Shenga / Afrobarometer , 2010)
- The rule of law is a necessary condition for democracy. One of the greatest challenges confronting Africa’s democratic reform process, however, is ensuring the rule of law prevails. Thus, Mozamb...
- Auditing in Brazil as an anti-corruption strategy
- ( C. Ferraz;F. Finan / National Bureau of Economic Research, USA , 2009)
- Political institutions can affect corruption. The researcher uses audit reports from an anti-corruption programme in Brazil to construct new measures of political corruption in local governments and t...
- Donor strategy toward Ethiopia needs fundamental rethinking
- ( B. Rawlence / Human Rights Watch , 2010)
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Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and is also one of the world's largest recipients of foreign development aid. Foreign donors insist that their support underwrites agricultura...
- Decentralisation and accountability in Mexico
- ( M. Grindle (ed) / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University , 2010)
- As countries throughout the world democratise and decentralise, citizen participation in public life should increase. It is said citizens in a decentralised and democratic system of government are gov...
- Corruption and governance in the DRC
- ( M. Kodi / Institute for Security Studies, South Africa , 2008)
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In spite of the devastation that has been visited on the DR Congo elections were held in 2006 and at the beginning of 2007, thus putting an end to a long political transition and raising the hopes ...
Assessing options for Ghana's oil revenues
- ( C. Breisinger;X. Diao;R. Schweickert / Kiel Institute of World Economics/Institut für Weltwirtschaft , 2009)
- Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of resource booms often concentrate on the short-run 'Dutch disease' effects on public expenditure, where exchange rate appreciation and competition f...
