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As for any profession, the education profession follows certain general standards of practice (either implicit or explicit), such as equality of treatment and fulfilment of duties. Problems of ethics in teacher behaviour include a number of...

In order to improve governance and reduce corruption in public service delivery (like ghost workers for example...), micro-level data is required to understand the incentives and behaviour of public officials, service providers and clients in order...

Countless cases of plagiarism are detected across the Australian higher education sector each year. Generally speaking, policy and other responses to the issue focus on punitive, rather than on educative measures. Recently, a subtle shift is...

This paper reports on the latest version of the worldwide governance indicators, covering 213 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance from 1996 until the end of 2005: voice and accountability, political stability and...

This volume contains eight essays which focus both on conceptual discussion of various issues relating to citizen-driven performance measurement and practical case studies. The main argument emerging from these essays is that citizen involvement in...

+ la demande du président Konaré, une mission de la Banque mondiale a séjourné au Mali en 1999 dans le but d'évaluer le programme anti-corruption et de proposer les méthodes par lesquelles la Banque mondiale pourrait soutenir les efforts du...

L'émergence de la gouvernance et de la corruption comme enjeux majeurs du développement a engendré la multiplication de bases de données internationales censées mesurer ces concepts. Cette étude s'interroge sur la pertinence et les limites des...

A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project...

This resource book distills seven years of Government Watch’s experience in monitoring government agencies. In those seven years, G-Watch monitored the Departments of Health, Social Welfare and Development, Education, Public Works and Highways, and...