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A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge the...

The Department of Education (DepEd) is the largest agency of the Philippine government, both in terms of personnel and budget allocation. As of March 2004, it administers a total of 41,388 schools, with a total of 456,317 teachers and 40,000 non...

The 2005 Global Corruption Report focuses on corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction. It includes expert reports on: post-conflict reconstruction, with a detailed analysis of corruption in Iraq; the mechanisms of corruption in...

Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries of education to schools represent more than 80 per cent of the total sums allocated for non salary expenditures in some countries; bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion...

This paper attempts to understand the challenges facing higher education in Ukraine as a result of corruption. More specifically, it examines the issues of licensing and accreditation, using the finding of interviews conducted with 43 rectors, vice...

Este libro incluye dos estudios sobre experiencias de mejoramiento espectacular de la transparencia y del rendemiento de cuenta en el uso de los recursos en educación. Estudio 1: la experiencia en el manejo del personal de la Secretaría de educación...

This toolkit helps locate where the constraints are identifying the degree to which they arise from problems within the service-providing agencies, or from difficulties at other provincial or national levels. It diagnoses the nature of the...

The Development Cooperation Manual (DCM) of the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a quality assurance tool, which describes key principles, procedures and standard working methods in different phases of a programme cycle. The programme cycle...

Educational corruption is a relatively new area of study in economics due mainly to the lack of available data. This paper utilizes a unique data set to examine educational corruption of various types including bribing on exams and term papers as...

What are the most effective ways to increase primary school enrolment and student learning? This paper argues that innovations in governance of social services may yield the highest return since social service delivery in developing countries is...