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This publication presents the papers discussed at the Latin American Forum on Ensuring Transparency and Accountability in the Public Sector that took place on 5-6 December 2001. The Forum brought together more than 450 ministers, senators, senior...

This article aims to analyze and measure the influence of corruption on a country's wealth. It is implicitly admitted that the degree of institutional development has an adverse effect on the productivity of production factors, which implies reduced...

Using panel data from a unique survey of public primary schools in Uganda, Reinikka and Svensson assess the degree of leakage of public funds in education. The survey data reveal that on average, during the period 1991-95, schools received only 13...

This document includes a preamble to the Code for the Education Profession in Hong Kong, which was adopted in 1990, the Code itself (which integrates commitment of the profession, commitment to students, to colleagues, to employers, to parents...

This strategy, approved in 2001, lays out guidelines and policies for the IDB's actions to prevent corruption in three areas: ensuring integrity among Bank staff, ensuring activities financed by the Bank are free of corruption and fraud, and...

In many countries, the legal frameworks for teacher management is problematic and there is a need for debate and reform action. The study reported in this document sets out to explore existing legal frameworks in Sierra Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe and...

Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is no more evident than in social sectors that are characterised by significant market failures and government intervention. However...

Corruption is a major but neglected problem in international development literature. From a review of available literature and the author's experiences within consulting services for various educational projects in developing countries, this article...

This paper outlines the Bank's position on anticorruption issues and recommends a number of concrete measures for establishing the Bank's anticorruption policy, whose main objective is to reduce the burden that widespread, systemic corruption exacts...

Creation of a State Student Admission Commission has enabled further transparency of the examination process. It based its work on a complete automatization and computerization of the selection of personnel for organising examinations, the grouping...