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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...

This Issue looks at the following questions: What is knowledge management and why does it matter? How can knowledge management systems be analysed and ranked? Are the U4 partner agencies collectively and individually good learning institutions in...

Based on U4 Issue which aims to unpack and analyse the problem of corruption in aid-funded emergency procurement, for the purposes of mitigating risk. How and where does corruption typically occur, and what can be done?

Rapidly rising attention to the quality of governance in developing countries is driving explosive growth in the use of governance indicators by international investors, donors of official development assistance, development analysts and academics...

As for any profession, the education profession follows certain general standards of practice (either implicit or explicit), such as equality of treatment and fulfilment of duties. Problems of ethics in teacher behaviour include a number of...

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...

Countless cases of plagiarism are detected across the Australian higher education sector each year. Generally speaking, policy and other responses to the issue focus on punitive, rather than on educative measures. Recently, a subtle shift is...

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...

This volume contains eight essays which focus both on conceptual discussion of various issues relating to citizen-driven performance measurement and practical case studies. The main argument emerging from these essays is that citizen involvement in...

+ 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...