The Department of Education (DepEd) is the largest agency of the Philippine government, both in terms of personnel and budget allocation. As of March 2004, it administers a total of 41,388 schools, with a total of 456,317 teachers and 40,000 non...

The 2005 Global Corruption Report focuses on corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction. It includes expert reports on: post-conflict reconstruction, with a detailed analysis of corruption in Iraq; the mechanisms of corruption in...

Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries of education to schools represent more than 80 per cent of the total sums allocated for non salary expenditures in some countries; bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion...

What are the most effective ways to increase primary school enrolment and student learning? This paper argues that innovations in governance of social services may yield the highest return since social service delivery in developing countries is...

In order to tease out the narrative detail behind such overarching issues as corruption, state capacity, public goods, the education sector and political economy in the Thai case, this thesis questions the impact of corrupt transactions on collective...

Corruption in education seriously undermines political, economic and social development and has a devastating effect on the lives of students and parents. This booklet documents studies carried out by Transparency International chapters in Argentina...

The Development Cooperation Manual (DCM) of the Norway Ministry of Foreign Affairs is a quality assurance tool, which describes key principles, procedures and standard working methods in different phases of a programme cycle. The programme cycle...

This paper examines financial aspects of accountability for the use of public funds, that is, fiscal accountability. It explains the growing demand for fiscal accountability, answers the who, for what, to whom and how questions, describes the move...

A first international course on “Public expenditure tracking surveys (PETS) in education” was organized jointly by the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) and the World Bank Institute (WBI), from 21 to 30 June 2004 in Phnom Penh...