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The key to reduced poverty is an integrated approach to development, addressing quality growth, environment, education, health and governance. This paper argues that government, as the key determinant of a county's domestic and international...
Langseth, Petter
Vienna, UNODCCP, 2000
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The 1999 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) assesses in detail the various dimensions of governance from the perspective of about 3000 firms in 20 countries. After introducing the survey framework and measurement approach...
Hellman, Joel, Jones, Geraint, Kaufmann, Daniel, Schankerman, Mark
Washington, WBI, 2000
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Corruption is seen as counter-productive to the needed economic and political reforms, accountability, transparency and good governance. This paper aims at classifying the various forms of corruption in order to operationalise the concept for...
Amundsen, Inge
Bergen, Michelsen Institute, 2000
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Integrity has become the fundamental condition for governments to provide a trustworthy and effective framework for the economic and social life of their citizens. The institutions and mechanisms for promoting integrity are more and more considered...
OECD. Public Management Committee
Paris, OECD, 2000
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The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is an important element in the recent debate on institutional design. The theoretical literature makes ambiguous predictions about...
Fishman, R., Gatti, G.W.
Washington, World Bank, 2000
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The movement toward decentralization is gathering momentum. In this context, the important costs of corruption are being explicitly recognised, as is the urgent need to prevent corruption, raise city revenues, improve service delivery, stimulate...
Klitgaard, Robert E., Maclean-Abaroa, Ronald, Parris, H. Lindsey
Oakland (USA), ICS Press, 2000
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Increasing awareness of the importance of governance has been accompanied by an increase in the number of commercial firms and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) producing broad indicators of the quality of governance and public institutions. First...
Knack, Stephen, Manning, Nick
Washington, World Bank, 2000
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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...
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge, Andvig, Jens Chr., Shrivastava, Amit
Oslo, NORAD, 2000
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In the early 1990s, U.S. Attorney General, Janet Reno, made health care fraud a priority in the U.S. department of Justice. Thereafter in 1997, she broadened the Department's initiative to encompass all areas of fraud prevention. As a result of these...
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A recent World Bank programme in Campo Elias, Venezuela, used an innovative and effective approach to build participatory institutional frameworks and to apply best practices in public policy making. As a result, corruption has fallen and services...
Gonzalez de Asis, Maria
Washington, World Bank, 2000