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This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007: Voice and Accountability, Political...

Corruption in public procurement has become a major issue in the Asia-Pacific region as elsewhere in the world. As a result of corruption, private mansions are being built instead of bridges; swimming pools are dug instead of irrigation systems...

The main purpose of this survey was to allow interested members of the assessment network to gather information about the understanding of and the attitudes towards their centralized examination systems and current reforms in this area. The survey...

The Global Corruption Barometer 2013 draws on a survey of more than 114,000 respondents in 107 countries. It addresses people's direct experiences with bribery and details their views on corruption in the main institutions in their countries. It also...

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...

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...

Launched in 2005 as a part of the regional consultations on the theme for the Asia Pacific HDR (APHDR) Trade on Human Terms, the Network was re-invigorated, following the UNDP Management Board's decision to focus on corruption as the next APHDR...