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  • Newspaper

    Donors slash government aid over corruption

    Uganda

    Press

    Patience Ahimbisibwe - All Africa

    The Uganda government was last evening left searching for alternative sources of funding following the withdrawal of support to the education sector by one of its key donors. The Dutch government announced it was withdrawing funding to a tune of nearly Shs50b (14 million Euro), citing concerns over persistent corruption, poor public financial management and poor standards.

  • Newspaper

    Corruption exceeds social services budget

    Eswatini

    Press

    - IRIN

    Swaziland's Minister of Finance has told the Senate that each year the country loses nearly double the annual social services budget to corruption. He estimated that about US$10.6 million a month was disappearing – amounting to about US$128 million annually - while the government's 2010/11 budget allocated US$75 million to social services, including US$24.2 million for education.

  • Decentralization and Corruption: New Cross Country Evidence

    This paper attempts to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using superior...

    Ivanya, Maksim, Shah, Anwar

    Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2011

  • West Bank and Gaza: improving governance and reducing corruption

    In the past decade, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has worked to strengthen economic governance and combat corruption, both essential to sustained economic growth and improved delivery of public services. This report finds the PA has made significant...

    World Bank

    Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2011

  • Educaçao: queremos 10% sem 10%

    As discussoes do Plano Nacional de Educaçao estao focadas nos 10% do Produto Interno Bruto como referência na aplicaçao de recursos orçamentários para a educaçao. Mas o controle dos recursos da educaçao deve combater o aviltante ato de cobrança de 10...

    Braga, Marcus Vinicius de Azevedo

    2011

  • Newspaper

    Anti-corruption rules for private institutions

    India

    Press

    Alya Mishra - University World News

    In a bid to encourage transparency and stamp out corruption and fraud in universities, India's education ministry is preparing guidelines that will for the first time force private higher education institutions to make their accounts public.

  • Newspaper

    Report finds fraud in for-profit education firms' recruiting

    USA

    Press

    Daniel de Vise - Washington Post

    A new government report on recruiting techniques in the for-profit higher education industry finds instances of college officials urging applicants to invent children and to hide their savings as a way to leverage more federal aid.

  • Decentralization (localization) and corruption: new cross-country evidence

    This paper attempts to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using superior...

    Ivanyna, Maksym, Shah, Anwar

    Washington, D.C., World Bank, 2010

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