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This book is a collection of chapters on corruption. It highlights the importance of corruption, transparency, and accountability and ways to deal with it. Understanding the types of corruption is very important to know how to deal with it. Types of...

This paper is part of the background research for the Skeptic’s Guide to Open Government (2022 Edition) . Suchi Pande developed it with guidance from the Accountability Research Center. This annotated bibliography identifies sources on how social...

South Asia countries have massively increased pupil enrolment but schools remain substandard in terms of performance. Why? This essay proposes three reasons: (i) low taxing effort, (ii) weak governance, and (iii) professional corruption. I discuss...

Using the 2007 household survey data collected by Transparency International Bangladesh, we examine corruption in the education sector in Bangladesh. Our main findings are (i) the incidence of corruption and the amount of bribe increase with the...

The Right to Information (RTI) Act in South Asia has seen mixed results. This latest briefing from the Protifolon series considers the challenges and varying successes of implementing RTI in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

We study non-collusive corruption in the education sector. For this purpose, we construct a simple theoretical model that captures non-collusive corruption between service providers (teachers) and service demanders (students). The model shows that...