How can accountability deficits be addressed in innovative ways in the face of weak and ineffective formal state institutions? This paper analyses the role of civil society organizations in improving accountability by increasing transparency in...

Increasing costs of running educational institutions and funding educational programs, coupled with decreasing government subsidies to support such costs, have made privatisation and marketisation of higher education a common phenomenon throughout...

This study examines the educational vulnerability of the 27 countries in the Europe and Eurasia region and updates the 2005 Education Sector Discussion Paper commissioned by the E&E Bureau. Based on the most recent data available, this study measures...

This report presents the experiences and the lessons learned by 22 volunteer partner countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia related to the application of the Methodology for the Assessment of National Procurement Systems. The Methodology was...

Corruption is increasingly being challenged as unacceptable across Asia and the Pacific. This Report shows how why eliminating corruption that plagues people's daily lives must become a priority. The police, social services, and environment are areas...

Subsequent to the end of the communist system in 1990, Mongolia has established a democratic regime, and has been assessed as being relatively well governed. However, more recently, corruption has been worsening, despite the continuation of a...