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25% of teachers were absent from school, and only about half were teaching, during unannounced visits to a nationally representative sample of government primary schools in India. Absence rates varied from 15% in Maharashtra to 42% in Jharkhand, with...

This literature review provides a quantitative and qualitative assessment of existing, mostly published academic work on decentralisation and related problems of corruption. It covers mainly research within social anthropology, economics, law, and...

NGOs, development organizations, and governments alike now universally refer to corruption - no longer a taboo subject - as a developmental problem. As the awareness-raising phase of the 1990s subsides, the focus is shifting to implementation of...

As in all countries, corruption exists in Kosovo today. But, despite public opinion and discussions in the mass media that presume very high levels of public corruption, it does not appear to be a pervasive force in the governance process and does...

This book documents the importance and extent of academic fraud. It identifies major varieties of academic fraud such as cheating in high stakes examinations, plagiarism, credentials fraud, and misconduct in reform policies. Examples of measures to...

Este libro se organiza en siete secciones que abordan el análisis del capital social y su relación con el desarrollo, las políticas públicas, la pobreza urbana, la dimensión de género, el mundo rural y la sostenibilidad ambiental. Entre los...

This paper discusses reasons why national education systems are particularly vulnerable to pervasive corruption, forms that corruption takes within the education sector, and interventions that have been suggested for reducing corruption. It argues...