Corruption
- Curbing Asian corruption: an impossible dream?
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This paper asserts that corruption in Asia can be minimised only if political leaders are willing to impartially implement effective anticorruption strategies. These include paying civil servants adequate salaries, reducing opportunities for corruption in wet agencies by cutting red tape and unnecessary regulation, improving the supervision of civil servants in vulnerable positions, and increasing the probability of detecting and punishing corrupt individuals.
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- Bribery hinders Philippines’ efforts to reduce gas emission from deforestation: a role for CBOs
- ( G. Mayo-Anda / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2011)
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National efforts to reverse forest degradation in the Philippines have taken on a new dimension in the context of recent international focus on mitigating the effects of climate change. This paper ...
- General decline in the incidence of corruption in Malawi
- ( B. Chinsinga;H. Kayuni;S. Konyani / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi , 2010)
- Corruption is one of the commonest problems in both developed and developing countries. Although corruption is a problem for all countries, Africa is regarded as least able to bear its cost in view of...
- How can practitioners operate in corrupt and weak governance environments?
- ( V. Bhargava / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2011)
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Good governance involves capable, accountable, transparent, and responsive states. Unfortunately, in many developing countries, weaknesses in these attributes are a grim reality, which, in turn, gi...
- Challenges in governing Afghanistan's hydrocarbons
- ( A. Strand;A. Williams / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway , 2010)
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Use of Afghanistan’s oil and gas resources, if properly handled, could have considerable spin-off effects for development in the country. This paper suggests, however, that governing the coun...
- 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...
Exploring irregular modes of electioneering in Nigeria
- ( M. Bratton / Afrobarometer , 2008)
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Vote buying and political intimidation are important, if epiphenomenal, dimensions of Nigerian election campaigns. According to survey-based estimates, fewer than one out of five Nigerians is perso...
- Kenya and vote-buying: analysing the effects
- ( E. Kramon / Afrobarometer , 2009)
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Vote-buying has and continues to be pervasive in many electoral regimes. Yet the relationship between vote-buying and citizen behavior, particularly in the context of the secret ballot, remains lar...
- 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 ...
- A gendered perspective of corruption in Mexico
- ( L. Wangnerud / Quality of Government Institute , 2010)
- Cross-country comparative studies show that a high number of women in elected office is related to a low level of corruption. Whether there is a causal relationship is, however, disputed. However, sub...
- 'Stagnation of a 'miracle': Botswana
- ( C.V. Soest / German Institute of Global and Area Studies , 2009)
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Botswana has been dubbed an 'African miracle'. The country has been praised not only for maintaining a multiparty system and high growth rates since independence but also for its good governance re...
