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This paper comparatively analyses legislative ethics, focusing on: the role of the legislature in combating corruption, the need for effective ethics regime; codes of conduct; ethics rules and financial disclosure requirements; enforcement and...
National democratic institute for international affairs (USA)
Washington, NDI, 1999
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This report presents the main findings of Latvia's diagnostic corruption surveys. As this report is based on survey evidence, it focuses primarily on lower level of corruption in the public sector. The survey evidence suggests that corruption in...
Anderson, James
Washington D.C., World Bank, 1998
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This report centers on a multi-disciplinary World Bank mission to Ethiopia in 1997, at the request of the Government of Ethiopia, to examine ways to support the Government's program to improve economic governance and to combat corruption. The mission...
Workd Bank. Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit, Africa Region (USA)
Washington, World Bank, 1998
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In 1995/96, 47.5 percent of the population of Bangladesh were still living below the poverty line. This paper argues that the persistence of poverty in Bangladesh originates less in the lack of resources than in the failures of governance. These...
Sobhan, Rehman
Paris, OECD, 1998
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Corruption is problematic when policies encourage it and institutional controls are weak. Diagnosing corruption, and understanding its causes and consequences, allows countries to overcome their policy and institutional weaknesses and implement...
Kaufmann, Daniel, Pradhan, Sanjay, Ryterman, Randi
Washington, World Bank, 1998
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El Plan Nacional de Integridad intenta combatir la corrupción, mal que socava la legitimidad de las instituciones públicas, atenta contra la sociedad, el orden moral y la justicia, así como contra el desarrollo integral de los pueblos. Entre otros...
La Paz, Republic of Bolivia, 1998
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This paper outlines the Bank's position on anticorruption issues and recommends a number of concrete measures for establishing the Bank's anticorruption policy, whose main objective is to reduce the burden that widespread, systemic corruption exacts...
Asian Development Bank
Manila, ADB, 1998
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Studies of the consequences of corruption have mainly focused on economic efficiency. This paper illustrates that corruption can also have distributional consequences. Corruption increases income inequality and poverty through lower economic growth...
Gupta, Sanjeev, Davoodi, Hamid, Alonso-Terme, Rosa
Washington D. C., IMF, 1998
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Building strong institutions is a central challenge of development and is key to controlling corruption. Among public institutions, the Supreme Audit Institutions (SAIs) play a critical role, as they help promote sound financial management and thus...
Dye, Kenneth M., Stapenhurst, Rick
Washington D.C., EDI, 1998
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In 1998, the World Bank undertook a mission to Malawi, at the request of its President, to examine ways to support its Government's program to improve economic governance and to reduce corruption. The mission's objectives were to assess the scope and...
Workd Bank. Poverty Reduction and Social Development Unit, Africa Region (USA)
Washington, World Bank, 1998