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    Open Budget Initiative (OBI)

    The Open Budget Initiative (Initiative) is a global research and advocacy program which seeks to promote public access to budget information and the adoption of accountable budget systems.
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    Governance considerations: donors’ use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) tool

    International Cooperation for Development and Solidarity, 2009
    This paper analyses the use of the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) rankings by bilateral and multilateral donors in their aid allocation and other related decision-making processes. This specific interest is embedded in the more general question of which role governance criteria plays in donors’ aid allocation processes.
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    Death and taxes: the true toll of tax dodging

    Christian Aid, 2008
    This report discusses the global taxation system that allows corporates to avoid their responsibilities while condemning the poorest to stunted development, even premature death. It argues that tax avoidance is a grey area. Although it is legal, it has a sliding scale of legitimacy. In the corporate world, avoidance often involves the use of tax havens to shelter and boost profits.
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    Fiduciary responsibility. Legal and practical aspects of integrating environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment

    United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, 2009
    This report is about identifying future challenges within the financial system in order to reduce further crises like the Natural Resources Crisis. The authors integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment analysis in order to engage with companies to promote sustainable business practices.
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    The global financial crisis: risks for fragile states in Africa

    Overseas Development Institute, 2009
    This commentary brief considers the risks of the global financial crisis to fragile states, particularly in Africa. The author writes that it poses a serious threat to global peace and security and has the potential to create the conditions whereby policy disputes spiral into instability – violent or non-violent.
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    Maybe we should pay tax after all? citizen's changing views on taxation in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    This paper examines the public’s perception of tax compliance in Tanzania, and the consequent implications for policy design. Using citizens' surveys, it evaluates changes in factors impacting on people’s willingness to pay taxes and the main challenges to improving the tax system in 2006 relative to 2003.The paper finds that:
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    Outsourcing revenue collection to private agents: experience from local authorities in Tanzania

    Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2009
    Many local government authorities in Tanzania have reformed their tax collection systems in recent years in order to increase their revenue. This paper examines how systems of privatized tax collection performed with respect to revenue generation, administration and accountability, based on evidence from urban and rural councils in Tanzania.
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    Springerlink

    SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals and books published by Springer. SpringerLink currently offers fully peer-reviewed journals and more than 10,000 books online.
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    Development finance by regional development banks – combining regional ownership with multilateral governance

    Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2008
    The development finance system is becoming increasingly complex. New actors and instruments are being created with enormous speed and ingenuity. Yet the multilateral development banks still account for a large share of the public resources used for development finance.
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    World Bank programme on fragile states

    This is the World Bank's site which details its work on fragile states. This includes post-conflict financing; rapid response; partnerships and research, knowledge and learning.

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