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A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and “Grand Theft Infrastructure”
Drawing upon the freshly expanded World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (ES), Kenny, Klein and Sztajerowska present an original paper examining three themes: corruption measurement pitfalls, corruption as efficient grease, and corruption in infrastructure. The Enterprise Survey now covers 125 countries and provides interesting insights, depicting an alternative picture from Transparency Internaional’s CPI or the World Bank’s Doing Business data – the latter portraying a de jure description of firm's environment, focusing on the institutional background.
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Activating Public Sector Ethics in Transitional Societies
In this paper Stevulak and Brown seek to demonstrate that an integrity-based approach holds the promise of fighting effectively against corruption and recalibrating the relationship between citizens and government in transitional societies. The authors explore compliance-based measures used by the former Soviet Union (FSU) countries when developing ethical public services and the reasons why these measures have shown considerable limitations. As the authors mention, all of the eight FSU countries referenced in their study have continued to witness rampant corruption despite the enforcement of such measures. The inevitable conclusion here is that the potential of the compliance regimes has been reached and that although they are essential in activating ethics, they have proven insufficient. Compliance approaches can enforce certain types of behavior, but they cannot generate the willingness of public servants to do the right thing. This conclusion brings the focus back onto integrity-based approaches and back to the individual.
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Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?
In this paper Susan Rose-Ackerman discusses what the ultimate goals of the international anti-corruption strategy ought to be and the most appropriate routes for maximising international influence in this area. First, the paper introduces the basic types of international actors involved in the area of anti-corruption. Second, the author moves on to discuss the crucial role of effective anti-corruption policies in achieving ultimate policy goals, which include aims such as efficient international markets, economic growth, poverty alleviation, government legitimacy and rebuilding political and economic order in post-conflict countries. Third, the discussion focuses on the role of international organisations in achieving these policy goals. Here, the author suggests that international actors should act in three main capacities: as information provider, international facilitator, and domestic project sponsor.
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2011 Aid Transparency Index
The 2011 pilot Aid Transparency Index collects for the first time primary data on aid transparency levels, with help from civil society organisations (CSOs) in 34 countries. The Index assesses the availability of specific information
items at organisational, country and activity level for 58
donor organisations, including bilateral and multilateral
donors, International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and private foundations. It then ranks these donors by assigning
scores for whether specific aid information was published
combined with an organisational level assessment of
whether the donor is participating in the International Aid Transparency Initiative and whether
they have a Freedom of Information law (or equivalent
disclosure policy).
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2011 East Africa Bribery Index
The index aims at measuring bribery levels in both the public and private sectors in the five countries in the region - Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania. In the 2011 edition, a survey was conducted with almost 13,000 randomly selected respondents in all countries between February and May 2011. The results showed that Burundi continues to be the country with the highest level of bribery (37.9%) in the region, followed by Uganda (33%) and Tanzania (31.6%). Rwanda is the least bribery prone country, with a bribery prevalence of 5.1%.
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Doing Business 2012: Doing Business in a More Transparent World
This year's ranking and report assesses regulations affecting domestic firms in 183 economies and ranks the economies in 10 areas of business regulation, such as starting a business, resolving insolvency and trading across borders. The report rankings on ease of doing business have expanded to include indicators on getting electricity. In this year's rankings Singapore leads on the overall ease of doing business, followed by Hong Kong SAR, China; New Zealand; the United States; and Denmark.
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Procurement, Service Delivery, Global, Anti-Corruption Laws, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Comparative Analysis, International Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Energy
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Fighting Corruption in Developing Countries: What can donors do? (Sciences Po)
Developed by Bathylle Missika at Sciences Po, this course provides an overview of the fight against corruption in developing countries, mainly from the perspective of bilateral and multilateral donors’ efforts. The discussions are framed within the broader context of governance efforts in developing countries. The course looks into the many aspects of corruption (administrative vs. political corruption), the actors involved (UN, OECD, Transparency International, etc.), their strategies and tools to address this issue through Official Development Assistance (ODA). It also looks at the politics of the anti-corruption “business”.
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Jan 25, 2011 03:50 PM
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Civil Society, Developement Assistance, Political Corruption, Poverty, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Asset Recovery, Conventions, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Corruption, Conflict and Peacebuilding (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
This course is a module of Tufts University Graduate Program. It looks at the nexus between conflict, corruption and peace as a cutting-edge issue in post-conflict state building. The course provides a comprehensive grounding in the basics of the corruption literature, reviews current approaches to anti-corruption measures at the policy and practice level, provides insights into how corruption and anti-corruption concepts can be applied to conflict environments.
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May 31, 2010 12:50 PM
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Aid and Humanitarian Assistance, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Post-conflict, Poverty, Global, Africa, Law Enforcement, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Extractives
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Funding Opportunity
Call for Applications for Workshop Fellows: Local Communities and the State in Africa
Feb 22, 2012 01:43 PM
The American Political Science Association (APSA) and the University of Botswana are pleased to announce a call for applications from individuals who would like to ...
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Funding Opportunity
CODESRIA Call for Proposals: Comparative Research Networks 2012
Feb 21, 2012 11:37 AM
Within the framework of its strategy for building comparative knowledge on Africa produced from within the African continent, the Council for the Development of Social ...
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Call for Papers
Call for Chapter Proposals - Government Counter-Corruption Strategies
Feb 19, 2012 10:35 AM
Given the mounting evidence that public corruption could largely destroy the political, social, and economic systems, each government and society in the world has to ...
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Call for Papers
Civil Society Organizations Fighting Corruption: Theory and Practice Workshop
Feb 10, 2012 08:13 AM
The fight against corruption has figured high on the agenda of the international community since the mid 1990s resulting in the adoption of regional and international ...
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Job Posting
Research Director - Edmond J. Safra Research Lab
Jan 23, 2012 01:40 PM
Working closely with the Center's Director, Lawrence Lessig, the Research Director will coordinate the work of the Edmond J. Safra Research Lab (the Lab) by identifying ...
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