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Report | Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya and Corruption
Corruption, Economic Governance, Report, Academic/Think TankCorruption in the private sector is widespread and costs the economy greatly while undermining efforts to reduce the poverty rates in the country. In order for small and medium enterprises to grow, they need to put their incomes into business related transactions and not those that aren’t such as corruption. This report highlights persistent corruption pertaining to small and medium...
Article | Reducing Corruption in African Developing Countries: The Relevance of E-Governance
Article / Working Paper, E-Governance, Academic/Think TankThis paper presents a review on reducing corruption in African developing countries, to lessen the discretion of officials, and increase transparency. While it is true that ICT eliminates many opportunities for corruption for those who do not understand the new technology fully, however, it opens up new corruption vistas for those who understand the new systems well enough to manipulate them....
Working Paper | Multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, gouvernance et démocratie : Le point de vue de la population malienne. Enquête ELIM2006. Premiers résultats.
Article / Working Paper, Democracy, Governance and MDG, Academic/Think TankLa mesure de la gouvernance et de la démocratie dans le cadre des stratégies actuelles de lutte contre la pauvreté constitue un défi majeur. Dans le prolongement de l'expérience menée en 2001 à Bamako, dans le cadre de l'enquête 132, la DNSI a intégré des modules portant sur les multiples dimensions de la pauvreté, la gouvernance et la démocratie à l'enquête nationale ELIM 2006. Dans un...
Transparency for Inclusive Governance: An assessment of India
Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Report, Civil SocietyAuthor: Pranjal Sharma. The euphoria of India as a regional power has been dented by talk of systemic corruption, poor public services, nagging problems of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty and demographic challenges. Establishing a strong sense of credibility in government and the development of adequate capacity for enforcement must also be addressed to ensure the success of India’s efforts...
The KENYA Governance Report 2011
Africa, Local Governance and Decentralization, Report, Civil SocietyThe KENYA Governance Report 2011 is the first report in a new series by AfriCOG. The report discusses governance, leadership, integrity and accountability in several sectors in Kenya, including the Judiciary and security sector. It focuses on the developments that have taken root, in terms of reforms following the promulgation of the constitution and also highlights some of the more...
Reap What You Sow: Greed and Corruption in Zimbabwe's Marange Diamond Fields
Africa, Corruption, ReportThe third investigation by PAC into illicit activity in Zimbabwe’s diamond sector, this report focusses on ongoing trade irregularities, the lack of transparency of diamond revenues, and examines ways ZANU officials and the global diamond industry have colluded to pull off the biggest plunder of diamonds since Cecil Rhodes. It also examines the various revenue streams of Zimbabwe’s Minister of...
Measuring Openness: A survey of transparency ratings and the prospects for a global index | Freedom Info
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankSince the 1990s, there have been dozens of efforts to measure information access. The problem is not that transparency has not been measured enough: It has. But what we have today is a patchwork of ratings and indices evaluating various aspects of government openness. These measures cover different sets of countries, examine different spheres of government transparency, and use a variety of...
Paying Bribes to Get Public Services: A Global Guide to Concepts and Survey Measures
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankThis paper reviews concepts essential to understand the experience of mass bribery; compares alternative questions used by major multi-national surveys to measure that experience; and reports data from 248 surveys in 125 countries with 285,678 interviews. The major multi-national surveys included are the Global Corruption Barometer of Transparency International, the Life in Transition survey of...
Monitoring corruption: Evidence from a field Experiment in Indonesia
Article / Working PaperIn this article Ben Olken compares the efficiency of two much proposed methods to reduce corruption: increasing audits by government officials and increasing grassroots participation. The results strongly advocate for the first but find no effect of the latter. This article is one of the first carefully designed randomised experiments on the economics of corruption. It constructs a well defined...
Empirical Survey on the Causes of the Corruption
Article / Working Paper, Academic/Think TankCet article propose d’actualiser la synthèse de la littérature empirique sur la corruption. En effet, la littérature sur l’économie de la corruption s’est fortement développée ces dernières années tant du point de vue théorique qu’empirique. Dans cet article, nous nous focalisons sur les causes de la corruption. This article suggests updating the synthesis of the empirical literature on the...