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  Measuring corruption: myths and realities

  World Bank, 2006

  Progress in fighting corruption on all fronts requires measurement of corruption itself. This recognition has renewed interest in the World Bank, and among aid donors, aid recipients, investors, and civil society, in developing measures of corruption, both in aid-financed projects as well as more broadly in developing countries.
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  Making decentralisation work for development: methodology of the local government performance measurement (LGPM) framework

  World Bank Research, 2008

  Indonesia has been transformed from a highly centralised country into one of the most decentralised countries. Since 2001, local governments (LGs) have become the main drivers of public service delivery, and have had to dramatically expand their capabilities. This paper discusses the local government performance management (LGPM) tool used to measure and track the performance of LGs.
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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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  A user’s guide to measuring gender-sensitive basic service delivery

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2009

  This Guide is intended as a generic and basic tool to map and analyse governance of basic service delivery through a gendered lens. It seeks to improve the measurements of basic services delivery in various areas of governance.
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  Toward more operationally relevant indicators of governance

  World Bank, 2000

  First generation indicators of the quality of governance, such as those provided by the International Country Risk Guide and Transparency International are of little value in guiding specific public sector reforms. This paper therefore, emphasises need for second generation indicators to help determine which institutions are associated with which dimensions of public sector performance.
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  Public officials survey

  World Bank, 2009

  This paper sets out the analytical framework that was used in designing a series of surveys of the views of public officials concerning their institutional environment and in analyzing the information that was generated in 15 countries.
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  Water poverty indicators: conceptual problems

  IWA Publishing, 2003

  In the wake of a growing concern about both the unchecked rise of poverty and the local and global consequences of water scarcity, the relationships between water and poverty are the object of a sprawling literature. Indicators are presented as indispensable tools for informing and orienting policy-making, comparing situations and measuring performance.
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  Empowering and engendering governance indicators

  UNDP Oslo Governance Centre, 2005

  This document presents the report of the UNDP-ICSSR Technical Workshop-2005 on Governance Indicators for Pro-Poor and Gender-Sensitive Policy Reform. The report is presented in the following four sections:
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  Carrying out a joint governance assessments: lessons learned from Rwanda

  The Policy Practice, 2009

  A joint governance assessment (JGA) aims to bring government and development partners together to undertake a joint assessment of governance performance based on commonly agreed indicators.
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  What’ s the goal? what’ s the purpose? observations on human rights impact assessment

  Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, 2004

  Over the last decade, support for international human rights and democratisation has grown steadily as an area of international development co-operation, and since the mid-1980s, there has been a shift in policy orientation from principle commitment to actual support for human rights programs and projects.

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