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The election to president of Indonesia in 2004 was in large part because of his promises to improve governance and fight corruption. This report, which was produced two years into the term of the President, examines what his government has done to...

The 2006 Global corruption report focuses on corruption and health. It includes expert reports on: the risks of corruption in different health care systems; the scale of the problem: from high-level corruption in Costa Rica to counterfeit medicines...

In this book, Transparency International's (TI) world-renowned 'corruption perception index' (CPI) and 'bribery perception index' (BPI) are explained and examined by a number of experts. They set out to establish how reliable these indexes are in...

A sub-regional course on “Public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) in education” was organised jointly by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the World Bank Institute (WBI), from 22 to 26 March 2006 in Accra. This course...

In order to improve governance and reduce corruption in public service delivery (like ghost workers for example...), micro-level data is required to understand the incentives and behaviour of public officials, service providers and clients in order...

This paper reports on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until the end of 2005: voice and accountability, political stability and...

+ la demande du président Konaré, une mission de la Banque mondiale a séjourné au Mali en 1999 dans le but d'évaluer le programme anti-corruption et de proposer les méthodes par lesquelles la Banque mondiale pourrait soutenir les efforts du...

L'émergence de la gouvernance et de la corruption comme enjeux majeurs du développement a engendré la multiplication de bases de données internationales censées mesurer ces concepts. Cette étude s'interroge sur la pertinence et les limites des...

A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project...

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...