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Report | Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya and Corruption
Corruption, Economic Governance, Report, Academic/Think TankCorruption in the private sector is widespread and costs the economy greatly while undermining efforts to reduce the poverty rates in the country. In order for small and medium enterprises to grow, they need to put their incomes into business related transactions and not those that aren’t such as corruption. This report highlights persistent corruption pertaining to small and medium...
First annual report on corruption trends in Uganda: Using the data tracking mechanism
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Academic/Think TankCorruption remains an impediment to development and a barrier to poverty reduction in Uganda and in many other African countries. This study has defined corruption as “abuse of office for private gain” and recent surveys, coupled with nationally produced data, indicate that corruption in Uganda is a problem, both at national and local government levels. The Data...
The Correlates of Corruption in India: Analysis and Evidence from the States
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Academic/Think TankSeveral leading indicators show that corruption is a fairly serious problem in India. However, there is a substantial variance of levels of perceived and experienced corruption by citizens across the country. This paper considers testable hypotheses from the growing literature on the determinants of corruption and applies them to Indian states. The...
What do corruption indices measure?
Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Academic/Think TankThis paper presents empirical evidence that the most widely used indices to measure corruption might be biased in systematic ways. Evidence from the International Crime victimisation Survey suggests that actual corruption experience may be a weak predictor of reported corruption perception, and that some of the factors commonly found to reduce corruption such as...
Accountability Arrangements to Combat Corruption: a Note on Research Methodology for Combating Corruption
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Book, Corruption, Europe and CIS, Academic/Think TankThis document provides information about the research agenda and methods used to investigate corruption in the infrastructure sector. It presents a combination of qualitative and quantitative research techniques to analyse corruption in the infrastructure sector. This methodology was selected to allow contextual analysis of real life situations based on multiple sources of evidence...
Strengthening African Governance: index of African governance result and rankings
Africa, Corruption, Global Index, Human Rights, Justice, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThe 2009 Index of African Governance seeks to measure the degree to which five categories of political goods - Safety and Security; Rule of Law, Transparency, and Corruption; Participation and Human Rights; Sustainable Economic Opportunity; and Human Development - are provided within Africa’s 53 countries. The Index offers a report card on the accomplishments of each government for...
Following the Money: Do Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys Matter?
Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Corruption, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyExpenditure tracking, or ‘follow the money’, has become a byword in development circles for interventions that look into whether the money gets to where it is supposed to be going. This U4 Issues Paper reviews the evidence concerning the efficacy of expenditure tracking, recommending closer attention to the political context of the various methods of expenditure tracking and...
Are International Databases on Corruption Reliable? A Comparison of Expert Opinion Surveys and Household Surveys in Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Academic/Think TankThis study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. It draws on a wave of original surveys conducted in eight African countries that combined two types of approaches. The first approach covers a sample of over 35,000 people and uses experience-based questions to measure petty bureaucratic corruption. The second (Mirror Survey) reports...
Exposing Corrupt Politicians: The Effects of Brazil's Publicly Released Audits on Electoral Outcomes
Article / Working Paper, Corruption, Democracy, Electoral Systems, Latin America and the Carribean, Academic/Think TankThis paper, published in the May 2008 edition of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, uses publicly released audit reports to study the effects of disclosing information about corruption practices on electoral accountability. Using a data set on corruption constructed from the audit reports, we compare the electoral outcomes of municipalities audited before versus after the 2004...
Researching Civil Remedies for International Corruption: The Choice of the Functional Comparative Method
Article / Working Paper, Civil Society, Corruption, Academic/Think TankThis paper motivates the choice of the functional comparative method to research the issue of civil remedies for international corruption. It shows how the social, economic and political factors that have shaped the normative context of the research question point to the functional comparative method as an appropriate methodology. The paper suggests that this method of legal...