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Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankAuthoritarian governments produce internal assessments of the quality of governance that allow them to identify and address brewing problems before they threaten regime stability. This paper provides a theory of how the information necessary to produce such assessments is gathered. The empirical focus of the paper is on China, which is used to illustrate how information-gathering channels in...
Assessment of the delivery of the Vietnam development report 2010 : modern institutions and its impact on policy debates around institutional reforms in Vietnam
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Inter-Governmental OrganizationAs development processes become ever more complex, there is a growing demand for knowledge products that provide the necessary informationtoimplement evidence-based policy change. However, the practice ofmonitoring the impact of knowledge products, often produced by international donors, is relatively new. Viet Nam has seen sustained economic growth and rapid reductions in poverty since the...
Measuring well-being I different approaches, their implications and an illustration | Development Progress
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Academic/Think TankThis Project Note examines three methods of measuring progress that allow us to compare the performance of different countries. It argues that the methods we employ to measure progress matter, illustrating the diverse results that are generated in a comparison of performance in East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The note summarises how the findings inform the measurement component of ODI’s...
Internet Use and Democratic Demands: A Multinational, Multilevel Model of Internet Use and Citizen Attitudes About Democracy
Africa, Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Media, Academic/Think TankThe success of a democracy depends, in part, on public demand for democratic institutions. How does Internet use shape citizens' preferences for regime type? Combining individual public opinion data from Africa and Asia with country-level indices, we test a multilevel model examining the relationship between Internet penetration, individual Internet use, and citizen demand for...
Problems Measuring Community Health Status at a Local Level: Papua New Guinea's Health Information System | The Communication Initiative Network
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Local Governance and Decentralization, Academic/Think TankThis article highlights problems in evaluating community interventions or local service performance if reliable village-level data is absent. Published in Rural and Remote Health 10: 1539, it draws on an evaluation of a nationwide donor project community development initiative implemented over 7 years (1998-2004) in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The initiative sought to increase community support for...
Governance and public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia : unofficial payments, utilization and satisfaction, Vol. 1 of 1
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Public Administration, Inter-Governmental OrganizationUsing data from the 2010 Life in Transition Survey, this paper examines the levels of citizens' satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia and identifies some factors that may help explain variation in utilization and levels of satisfaction with service delivery. It finds satisfaction with public service delivery in Europe and Central Asia to be relatively high, and,...
Study of Performance Audit on Public Expenditure of Chinese Government | Economics Papers,Economics Term Paper,Economics Research Paper
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific【Abstract】 Almost half a century has passed and rich results have been achieved since beginning of theoretic study and practice of performance audit in the well developed Western countries and regions. It is known that so far performance audit has taken up 90%, 50%,40%,35% and 40% of the total audit resources in the United States, Australia, Sweden, U.K. and Japan, respectively. Practice shows...
The Quality of democracy in Asia-Pacific: issues and findings
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Democracy, Academic/Think TankContributors to this issue assess the quality of democracy in Asia-Pacific on the basis of both quantitative and qualitative data from an eight-country study. In doing so, they seek to make a contribution to the debate both empirically and conceptually. Empirically the project is the first effort, to the best of our knowledge, to apply an analytical framework developed by Morlino and his...
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...
Lessons for reformers: how to launch, implement, and sustain regulatory reform
Article / Working Paper, Asia and the Pacific, Civil Society, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Inter-Governmental OrganizationGovernments base their economic development and poverty reduction strategies on efforts to expedite and expand reforms that improve their countries’ business environments. The inefficiencies constraining growth must be addressed mainly at the micro-economic level, through broad legal and regulatory reforms. Successful reform requires overcoming vested interests in the public...