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    Africa Development Indicators 2010: quiet corruption

    African Development Indicators, World Bank, 2010
    This essay in the Africa Development Indicators series aims to shed light on a different type of corruption. It introduces the term “quiet corruption” to indicate various types of malpractice of frontline providers that do not involve monetary exchange. This paper details how such practices are undermining Africa’s development by illuminating devastating malpractice:
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    The African Peer Review Process in Nigeria

    Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, 2008
    This report seeks to identify the challenges, problems and opportunities which Nigeria’s implementation of the African Peer Review Mechanism has opened up for the country’s governance. The report gives details about issues such as:
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    The APRM process in Burkina Faso

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2009
    This report is an evaluation of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) process in Burkina Faso. It examines whether and to what extent the self-assessment complied with the effectiveness and credibility criteria defined by the APRM documents. It looks at the extent to which the process was open, participatory, transparent and independent.
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    Benin and the African Peer Review Mechanism: consolidating democratic achievements

    Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network, 2008
    This report offers an independent review of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) process of governance in Benin. It presents the most important stages in the process from the time Benin signed the APRM MoU until the presentation of the report. It reviews problems faced and the strong points of the process.
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    Social mobility in Latin America: a review of existing evidence

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    This paper reviews evidence on social mobility in Latin America. While Latin America has improved education mobility in recent decades, it still presents lower education mobility than in developed countries. The paper also reviews studies on the main determinants of the region’s low levels of social mobility. The paper provides information on issues such as
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    Political institutions, intertemporal cooperation, and the quality of policies

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    In all states, public policies play a fundamental role in influencing economic and social outcomes. This paper builds cross-country indicators of policy capabilities drawing from available broad cross-national sources from the Inter-American Development Bank, in which policy characteristics were constructed for 18 Latin American countries.
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    The making of policy: institutionalised or not?

    Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo / Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), 2009
    Formal analysis of policy-making within the realm of political institutions has deepened the understanding of how political institutions shape economic policies.
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    Constitutional reform in the Arab world

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2010
    Constitutional reform in the Arab world derives legitimacy from its importance in the process of modernization, reformulating the relationship between state and society, and effecting changes that reflect evolving ideological and intellectual systems, as well as regional and international political developments.
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    Struggles for citizenship in Africa

    Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project, 2010
     ‘We needed a war because we needed our identity cards.
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    A methodology for democratic conflict prevention and early warning in Latin America

    Georgetown University, 2005
    This paper presents a seven-step methodology designed to analyse violent conflict, assess democratic governance and understand the relationships between the two. It has been developed principally as a tool of analysis to study the nature and quality of democracy in relation to current and future conflicts in a specific world region: Latin America.

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