Search

Reset

Searching with a thematic focus on Good Governance

Showing 591-600 of 940 results

Pages

  • Document

    We have degrees in violence: a report on torture and human rights abuses in Zimbabwe

    Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, 2007
    This report details the state-sponsored violence in Zimbabwe. It is based on the detailed testimony and medical examination of 24 individuals who were subjected to torture or political violence during March and April 2007. The report says that the Zimbabwean government is systematically utilising torture and violence as a means of deterring political opposition. Its main findings include:
  • Document

    Regulatory regimes and accountability

    Blackwell Synergy, 2007
    Like many aspects of governmental functions that have undergone reform over the past two decades, the traditional ways of achieving regulatory goals have given way to experimentation with a variety of innovations. This research considers accountability issues for new forms of regulation that shift the emphasis from prescribing actions to regulating systems or regulating for results.
  • Document

    Transparency in oil rich economies

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
    Corruption is a serious problem in many developing countries that are rich in oil and other natural resources. This is central in explaining why resource rich countries perform badly in terms of socioeconomic development. Transparency has recently been viewed as a key factor in reducing corruption and other dysfunctions in natural resource rich countries.
  • Document

    Corruption in emergencies: what role for media?

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2006
    This document brings together the deliberations of a meeting of donors, NGOs and journalists from Sri Lanka, Liberia and Nepal on the role of the media in tackling corruption in humanitarian aid programmes. It draws on various case studies and suggests ways in which humanitarian agencies and the media can mutually support responsible coverage of corruption in emergency aid.
  • Document

    Corruption, institutional discredit, and exclusion of the poor: a poverty trap

    Afrobarometer, 2007
    This paper explores direct effects of corruption on the poor. Based on an analysis of data from comparable household surveys conducted in 18 sub-Saharan African countries, the paper shows that poverty and corruption are locked in a self-reinforcing vicious cycle. The main arguments of the paper are:
  • Document

    Corruption in natural resource management: an introduction

    Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008
    Natural resources often provide fertile ground for corruption. Since a substantial number of partner countries in development cooperation are richly endowed with natural resources, these contexts pose a particular challenge for effective donor action.
  • Document

    Overview of a selection of existing accountability mechanisms for handling complaints and disputes

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    This paper summarises a range of existing mechanisms to address complaints and for disputes resolution. These accountability mechanisms are ordered along a spectrum from judicial and quasi-judicial to investigatory processes linked to political or public pressure as well as binding and non-binding arbitration. The mechanisms covered are:
  • Document

    The private sector in the Arab world – road map towards reform

    The Arab Reform Initiative, 2007
    This paper explores the role of the private sector and the conditions of the birth of a national bourgeoisie in the Arab world. Traditionally, the oil-exporting rentier states of the Middle East do not depend on taxation and the private sector is often only an extension of the state on which it depends for contracts, import licenses and the like.
  • Document

    Linking budget analysis with aid advocacy: how civil society groups can monitor donor budget support

    Affiliated Network for Social Accountability, 2007
    Governments have changed how aid is delivered - away from project-based funding towards direct budget support to donor countries. This report argues that this is preferable as it mitigates the time and resources spent on aid recipients reporting to donors’ demands, whilst encouraging administrations to develop efficient, accountable governance.
  • Document

    Our money, our responsibility a citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditure

    International Budget Partnership, 2008
    The third in a series of guides covering financial budgeting and accountability, this paper offers an overview of government budget implementation processes and provides practical, tested tools that can be used by civil society organisations interested in monitoring government expenditures.

Pages