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This article reviews aspects of the literature on Anti-Corruption Agencies or Commissions (ACC) and sets the context for its empirical research into five African countries, i.e. Ghana, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It argues that...

The Ministry of Education and Youth (MET) has recently become more active in addressing academic corruption, and on January 18, 2007, an action plan to prevent and combat corruption in the education system was authorized in collaboration with the...

This paper presents an argument called the inequality trap namely how high inequality leads to low trust in groups and then to high levels of corruption, and back to higher levels of corruption. It presents an analysis for Africa using Afrobarometer...

Teacher absenteeism affects the quality of education by reducing instructional time. Moreover, as teachers represent the single largest item in the education budget of all countries, their absence from the classroom represents a direct loss of...

The article reviewed the teacher payroll expenditure in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) from the structure of payroll expenditure to the payroll mechanism and concluded that effective and sustainable teacher payroll expenditure is built on...

This paper explores the emergence of the myth of women's lesser propensity than men to engage in corrupt activity. It shows that the notion that women are more likely to behave with probity and integrity, is ironically the reverse of a myth that has...

Ce document a été élaboré lors du colloque L'éthique de la coopération internationale et l'effectivité des droits humains, qui s'est tenu à Bergamo en Italie, à l'invitation des chaires UNESCO de Bergamo, Cotonou et Fribourg, les 12-14 mai 2005. Il a...

This volume provides advice on how to institutionalize performance-based accountability, especially in countries that lack good accountability systems. The volume describes how institutions of accountability may be strengthened to combat corruption...

L'idée qu'au-delà de l'atteinte portée au pacte social et aux libertés fondamentales, la corruption est une violence faite a des personnes, physiques ou morales, qui subissent de fait un préjudice et qui ont droit à obtenir réparation est une idée...

A dozen years ago virtually no internationally comparable measures of governance or corruption existed. Since then, the world has seen an explosion of empirical research aimed at measuring governance, monitoring country progress, understanding the...