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This handbook presents a framework to assist USAID missions develop strategic responses to public corruption. The framework sets out root causes of corruption, identifies a range of institutional and societal reforms to address them, and introduces a...

Ethical debate around development aid has gradually grown and diversified, and a field that spans some aspects of policy, organizational and personal practice has partly emerged. After characterizing this trend, the paper considers the following: the...

The Chr. Michelsen Institute and the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), organised a workshop on corruption research in Oslo, October 2000. The workshop aimed to...

The main goal of this Action Plan is to strengthen Norwegian assistance to partner countries' efforts to prevent and curb corruption within a context of good governance. The Action Plan has three main objectives: - Intensify Norwegian assistance to...

This report addresses the state of corruption in Nicaragua, its historical roots and recent efforts by government (as well as donors and civil society) to address the issue. Additionally, this analysis briefly offers some suggestions on how donors...

La recrudescence que connaît la corruption depuis les années 1980 n'est pas sans rapport avec l'intensification de la mondialisation des échanges qui laissent se développer, aux marges de la prospérité, des zones de flou juridique et économique...

This report puts into motion a chain of events that fundamentally reformed the way the Bank thinks about, and acts against, corruption. In its first part, it thus details the progress that the Bank has made building each of the four pillars of its...

This paper explores the effect of donor-supported civic education programs on levels of citizen trust in institutions in the Dominican Republic. Using attitudinal surveys of control and treatment groups the paper demonstrates that civic education had...

While progress has been made over the years in development, many challenges yet remain in order to make globalization work for the poor. This second White Paper on international development, produced by the Department for International Development...

This article illustrates how corruption is widespread in the education sector in Cambodia. It particularly explores and explains how aid money could become an instrument inducing or facilitating teachers' corrupted and unethical practices.