Corruption
- Corruption factsheets
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Recently, various international frameworks for the future development agenda have identified the need for anti-corruption measures, emphasising that these should also help reduce poverty, promote human rights and underpin security. This set of seven factsheets highlights a variety of issues and various anti-corruption protocols with implications for both the North and South.
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- How can aid be free from corruption?
- ( Transparency International , 2007)
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For aid to be effective it must, in its first instance, be delivered to its intended recipients. Combating corruption, therefore, should be the first action of any aid transaction - in order t...
- Understanding the poverty-corruption nexus in developing countries
- ( Transparency International , 2008)
- Although 2007 marked the half-way mark to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to end extreme poverty by 2015 as well as the tenth anniversary of the Lima Declaration signed by the anticorrupt...
- Measuring corruption
- ( R. June;M. Laberge;J. Nahem / UNDP Oslo Governance Centre , 2008)
- Over the past few years, a flood of new work has emerged challenging the validity of the traditional measurements of corruption and arguing for new and improved tools for national policy mak...
Rights based approaches and climate change
- ( Oxfam , 2008)
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This briefing proposes that human rights principles provide a guideline for dealing with climate change. The document emphasises that the human rights community must beco...
What can be done to strengthen environmental protection and promote sustainable development in the Central Albertine Rift?
- ( E. van de Giessen / Institute for Environmental Security , 2008)
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The Central Albertine Rift is a transboundary eco-region important not only in terms of its great biodiversity, but also in terms of politics and security. Violent conflicts in the region related t...
- Localisation without rule of law may increase corruption
- ( World Bank , 2006)
- This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralised local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is becaus...
- Strengthening audit institutions for corruption detection
- ( K. M. Dye / World Bank Publications , 2007)
- This paper examines the fraud and corruption issues confronting supreme audit institutions (SAIs) and offers some strategies and ideas for improving SAI performance in detecting fraud and corruption....
- PETS: a silver bullet solution?
- ( G. Sundet / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2007)
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This briefing look at the effectiveness of Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS). It particularly focuses on the PETS in Tanzania but also makes references to the way in which PETS worked in U...
- The state of corruption in Honduras’ education system
- ( A. Fontana / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2008)
- This paper discusses the corruption problem amongst teachers in Honduras. It also discusses the Honduran concept of ghost or taxi teachers and concludes by looking at what the future will hold. ...
- More anti-corruption bodies worldwide but no reduction in corruption
- ( Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development , 2007)
- This report provides comprehensive descriptions of selected specialised anti-corruption institutions operating in different parts of the world, presented in a comparable framework. The description inc...
