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  • Newspaper

    Lessons in graft

    Uzbekistan

    Press

    Marina Kozlova - Transition On Line

    In Uzbekistan, many schools lack basic supplies and teachers sometimes resort to asking pupils for cash to supplement meager budgets. The Uzbek Uchitel Uzbekistana newspaper in August 2007 reported that even the most experienced elementary and secondary-school teachers earn less than $100 a month. In 2007, Transparency International ranked Uzbekistan fifth from bottom in its corruption index of 180 nations surveyed.

  • Creating the institutional support for successful anti-corruption campaigns

    This paper discusses reform required at the institutional level for a successful anti-corruption campaign including establishing the necessary mechanisms, providing safeguards, and training for officials and the public. The paper will also discuss...

    Pilapitiya, Thusitha

    Alexandria, VA, Casals and Associates, 2008

  • The uncertain relationship between transparency and accountability

    The concepts of transparency and accountability are closely linked: transparency is supposed to generate accountability. This article questions this widely held assumption. Transparency mobilises the power of shame, yet the shameless may not be...

    Fox, Jonathan

    UK, Routledge, 2007

  • Newspaper

    Anti-Corruption Measures Hit Snag at MPASS

    Ghana

    Press

    Frederick Asiamah - Public Agenda

    There is a certain frustration at the Mpraeso Secondary School over the administration's attempts to improve accountability and transparency. The implementation of anti-corruption measures through the automation of accounting and administrative procedures as a means of checking and curbing corruption has been bogged by official apathy. The computerization programme, 'School Management Programme', that could have cost the school about ¢5 million a few months ago will now cost the school almost double that amount.

  • Newspaper

    Employers return mak transcripts for verification

    Uganda

    Press

    Rodney Muhumuza and Emmanuel Mulondo - The Monitor

    After several media reports that thousands of the Makerere university's alumni are potential fraudsters, several employers are contacting the transcript office for verification of academic documents. According to an officer at the Academic Registrar's office, bankers, customs officials and journalists have forged their paths to jobs they should never have had at all.

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