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  • Newspaper

    Transparency International's 2008 CPI: persistently high corruption in low-income countries amounts to an "ongoing humanitarian disaster"

    Press

    - DG Communities

    Transparency International's 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) highlights the fatal link between poverty, failed institutions and graft. But other notable backsliders in the 2008 CPI indicate that the strength of oversight mechanisms is also at risk among the wealthiest. In low-income countries, rampant corruption jeopardizes the global fight against poverty, threatening to derail the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to TI's 2008 Global Corruption Report, unchecked levels of corruption would add US $50 billion (€35 billion) - or nearly half of annual global aid outlays – to the cost of achieving the MDG on water and sanitation.

  • Newspaper

    Recession boosts donor transparency

    Press

    - IRIN

    The global financial crisis has catalyzed increasing transparency and accountability regarding public finances, say aid experts, which has helped open up disclosures on aid-giving.

  • Poverty and corruption

    The year 2007 marked a milestone in the fight against poverty and corruption. It represented the midway point on the road to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the ambitious global pledge to end extreme poverty by 2015. It also...

    Transparency International

    Berlin, Transparency International, 2008

  • Corruption in emergency procurement

    Based on U4 Issue which aims to unpack and analyse the problem of corruption in aid-funded emergency procurement, for the purposes of mitigating risk. How and where does corruption typically occur, and what can be done?

    Schultz, Jessica, Søreide, Tina

    Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2006

  • Corruption and aid modalities

    The introduction of `new' aid modalities - and in particular general budget support - has increased the interest in the relationship between corruption and aid modalities. This U4 Issue reviews the information that theory and empirical studies...

    Fritz, Verena, Kolstad, Ivar

    Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2008

  • Open budgets, transform lives: the Open Budget Survey 2008

    The Open Budget Survey 2008, a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries, finds that the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. This encourages inappropriate, wasteful, and corrupt spending and-because it...

    International Budget Partnership

    Washington, D.C., International Budget Partnership, 2008

  • Anti-corruption approaches: a literature review

    As part of the preparation of a joint evaluation of anti-corruption efforts, the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Danish International Development Assistance (Danida), the Swedish Agency for Development Evaluation (SADEV), the Swedish International...

    Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation

    Oslo, NORAD, 2009

  • Approaches to teaching and learning about corruption in the health sector

    Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators or development agency workers, and increase transparency and accountability. This U4...

    Vian, Taryn

    Bergen, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 2009

  • Preventing corruption in humanitarian operations: a handbook of good practices

    Preventing Corruption in Humanitarian Operations: A Handbook of Good Practices is a timely, practical guide to help aid organisations deal with corruption in day-to-day operations. When people donate money to aid agencies they expect it to reach...

    Transparency International

    Berlin, Transparency International, 2010

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