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    Distributing mining wealth to communities in Ghana: Addressing problems of elite capture and political corruption

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    In the context of a mining boom in Africa, a critical consideration is how governments use increased mineral wealth to foster development, particularly in rural communities where mining takes place.
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    Leaking projects: Corruption and local water management in Kyrgyzstan

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Poor water infrastructure in Kyrgyzstan from the Soviet era led international donors to support investments in agricultural irrigation and potable freshwater systems. The financial investments made, however, did not always underpin improvements in local water delivery and the Kyrgyz Vice President once noted that “the lion’s share of the credit was stolen”.
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    Project Leaf and addressing corruption in REDD+

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2013
    Project Leaf (Law Enforcement Assistance for Forests) was launched on 5 June, 2012 – on World Environment Day. It is an initiative to counter various aspects of forest crime, including corruption, illegal logging and timber trafficking.
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    Wildlife Management in Tanzania: State Control, Rent Seeking and Community Resistance

    Development and Change Journal, 2013
    Despite a decade of rhetoric on community conservation, current trends in Tanzania reflect a disturbing process of reconsolidation of state control over wildlife resources and increased rent-seeking behaviour, combined with dispossession of communities.
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    Evaluating governance indexes: Critical and less critical questions

    World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2013
    Recent years have seen a proliferation of ‘composite indicators’ or ‘indexes’ of governance.
  • Organisation

    Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIF)

    The Center for Comparative and International Studies (CIS) seeks to integrate the study of national political systems (comparative politics) and the study of international politics (international rela
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    Low carbon growth plans: advancing good practice

    2009
    This working paper summarises output from Project Catalyst, an initiative of the ClimateWorks Foundation, aimed at providing analytical support for the UNFCCC negotiations on a post-Kyoto international climate agreement. It seeks to show how to spread best practice around the world effectively by learning from and building upon the experiences of first-generation low carbon growth plans (LCGPs).
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    GATEWAY

    GATEWAY focus is on collecting, sharing and expanding knowledge on corruption assessment.
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    Final report Malawi intergovernmental fiscal transfers study

    2000
    Now that local government elections have taken place in Malawi and new assemblies have been sworn in across the country, the implementation of the fiscal decentralisation programme is expected to go ahead with full force. However, before the devolution of the first expenditure responsibilities can take place, a large number of financial and administrative issues will need to be resolved.
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    Malawi: Democracy and Political Participation

    2009
    Malawi was a colonial territory of Britain until 1964, known as Nyasaland. From 1944, the Nyasaland African Congress (NAC), later renamed the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) in 1959, spearheaded a nationalist movement to overthrow the colonial system and establish a new political and social order.

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