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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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Appointing Top Officials in a Democratic Indonesia: The Corruption Eradication Commission
Democratisation has brought checks and balances, and new state agencies, to
Indonesian politics. Checks and balances and greater responsiveness to the public
have also been sought in the appointment processes for the senior management
of these new bodies. This paper examines the merits of the new appointment
processes, in particular sequential selection, through a case study of the leadership
selection process for the Corruption Eradication Commission. It reviews the process
stipulated by law and its implementation in 2003, 2007 and 2010. The study argues
that, while the short-listing of candidates by the selection committee aims at
unprecedented openness and meritocracy, the process used has been tedious and
has given insufficient weight to candidates’ track records. Despite criticism that the
final selection was pre-determined, the paper concludes that the overall selection
process has upheld the principle of checks and balances between the executive and
the legislature and ensured diversity of political support.
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Reducing informal payments in the health care system: Evidence from a large patient satisfaction survey
Drawing on the body of literature on the effects of providing information on reducing corruption, Mokhtari and Ashtari empirically test the argument about the importance of transparency of patients’ entitlements and service prices for reduction of informal payments for healthcare services. Taking Moldova as their case study and using 2008 Patient Satisfaction Survey as their data source, the authors test a multivariate logistic regression model assessing the importance of a wide range of socio-demographic, attitudinal, and situational factors on the probability of leaving informal payments. Among the factors included by the authors in their model were age, sex, occupation, having or not having insurance, reasons for visiting healthcare facility, having or not having appointment, length of waiting for the visit, method of payment for services, observation of confidentiality, patient’s attitudes towards healthcare facility and healthcare staff, patients’ knowledge of their rights and responsibilities, and, finally, transparency of patients’ entitlements and services prices. As this study demonstrates, transparency is an important factor of not giving informal payments.
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Global Right to Information Rating
The Right to Information (RTI) rating, which covers 89 countries around the world, was developed by Access Info Europe and the Centre for Law and Democracy. The central idea behind the RTI Rating is to provide RTI advocates, reformers, legislators and others with a reliable tool for assessing the overall strength of the legal framework in their country for RTI. The Rating also indicates the strengths and weaknesses of the legal framework in seven different categories, namely: Right of Access, Scope, Requesting Procedures, Exceptions and Refusals, Appeals, Sanctions and Protections, and Promotional Measures. There are a total of 61 Indicators, each with a range of possible scores which in most cases is 0-2, for a possible total of 150 points. The Indicators are drawn from a wide range of international standards on the right to information, as well as comparative study of numerous right to information laws from around the world. A standardised scoring tool, based on the Indicators, was developed to ensure that the points under each Indicator were allocated consistently across different countries. The scoring tool was then applied to each of the 89 countries with right to information laws around the world by researchers at CLD and AIE. The analysis shows vast room for improvement: two thirds of countries (64%) scored in the middle range, between 60 and 100 points out of 150. Typical weaknesses were the limited scope, over-broad exceptions regimes, shortcomings in oversight and appeals mechanisms, and lack of legal requirements to promote awareness of the public's right of access to information. Please see link for more details.
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2011 Bribe Payers Index
The Bribe Payers Index is a unique tool capturing the supply side of international bribery, specifically focussing on bribes paid by the private sector. The 2011 Bribe Payers Index is the fifth edition of the index, ranking 28 of the world’s largest economies according to the likelihood of firms from these countries to bribe when doing business abroad. It is based on the results of Transparency International’s 2011 Bribe Payers Survey. This asked 3,016 senior business executives in 30 countries around the world for their perceptions of the likelihood of companies, from countries they have business dealings with, to engage in bribery when doing business in the executive’s country. A sectoral ranking is also available which scores and ranks 19 sectors. The survey asked how often three different types of bribery were perceived to occur in each sector: firstly, bribery of low-ranking public officials; secondly, improper contributions to high-ranking politicians to achieve influence; and thirdly, bribery between private companies.
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Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy
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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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Corruption, Development, and Good Governance (George Washington University)
This course examines corruption from real world as well as scholarly perspectives. It uses case studies, debates, guest lectures, and items from the news to examine how corruption can affect effective governance at the national and international levels and its trade spillovers. It also examines how new technologies and strategies (from cell phones to the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) can reduce corruption and improve governance.
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National Governance, Corruption, Public Economics and Development (Paris School of Economics)
Developed by professor Ariane Lambert-Mogiliansky, this course aims to introduce the students to formal and empirical analyses of corruption in central issues of public and development economics. The course is part of the Public Policy and Development Programme at the Paris School of Economics.
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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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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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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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Research Tender
UNDP Regional Project - Anti-Corruption and Integrity in the Arab Countries
Feb 01, 2012 04:16 PM
UNDP is looking for non-governmental and non-profit partners to cooperate with developing three discussion papers on various themes of anti-corruption in the Arab ...
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Funding Opportunity
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Social Sciences, with a Focus on the Middle East
Jan 30, 2012 04:11 PM
Applications are invited for a full-time position, with an initial contract of three years, starting in May 2012. The successful candidate will: work on the economy of ...
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Call for Papers
PEGNET Conference 2012: How to Make African Economic Lions
Jan 27, 2012 02:09 PM
The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network’s (PEGNet) conference 2012 on „How to Make African Economic Lions: Tapping Africa’s Growth and Poverty Reduction ...
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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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