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Anti-corruption Measures as Political Criteria for EU Accession: Lessons from the Bulgarian Experience
(U4 Brief 2008:5, Report, 2008-02-20)The issue of corruption featured high on the agenda of the two latest enlargements of the European Union, in particular with respect to the accession of Bulgaria and Romania, in 2007. There were few assistance programmes ... -
Anti-corruption Policy Making in Practice: Implications for Implementing UNCAC
(U4 Brief 2008:1, Report, 2008-01-11)Broad national anti-corruption strategies have so far been a popular response by governments to wide-spread corruption in many countries. The results have, however, been mixed. This U4 Brief argues that States Parties to ... -
Anti-corruption policy making in practice: What can be learned for implementing Article 5 of UNCAC?
(U4 Report 2007:1, Research report, 2007-01-01)Fighting corruption is a challenge in any context, because corruption has many faces and can occur in different forms across all sectors and institutions of a country. The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) recognises ... -
Anti-corruption policy making in practice: What can be learned for implementing Article 5 of UNCAC? Synthesis report of six country case studies: Georgia, Indonesia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Tanzania, and Zambia
(U4 Report 2007:2, Research report, 2007-01-01)Fighting corruption is a challenge in any context, because corruption has many faces and can occur in different forms across all sectors and institutions of a country. The UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) recognises ... -
Anti-corruption Reforms: Challenges, Effects and Limits of World Bank Support
(IEG Working Paper 7:2008, Research report, 2008-09-01)This study compares the evolution of the state-of-the-art in research and analysis of anticorruption and transparency with World Bank practice. The first part of the paper reviews the theoretical and empirical approaches ... -
Anti-Corruption Training and Education
(U4 Brief 2007:13, Report, 2007-10-10)Corruption has gained significant attention in development discourse and practice. While anticorruption (AC) training is identified as a useful approach to fostering the development of broadbased alliances for demanding ... -
Anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability in health management information systems. Exploring the potential of the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2)
(U4 Issue 2022:9, Research report, 2022-09-01)The District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) offers a low-cost tool to strengthen countries’ capacity to collect and use health data, but it requires strong data governance to be equitable. -
Anti-corruption: Diagnosis and strategies
(Others, 2007-08-16)Within the ‘good governance' strategies of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund initiatives to curb corruption are given priority. Improving governance and reducing corruption are considered essential to ... -
Antonio De Lauri Interviews Anthony Reid
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Antonio De Lauri interviews William Gervase Clarence-Smith
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Antropologia giuridica. Temi e prospettive di ricerca
(Book, 2013-01-01)Questa raccolta di saggi rappresenta un punto di riferimento nel settore di studi dell'antropologia giuridica e colma un vuoto significativo nella letteratura in lingua italiana sull'argomento. Pensato come strumento per ... -
Applied Social Science Research in Afghanistan. An Overview of the Institutional Landscape
(Research report, Research report, 2008)This report is a preliminary mapping of Afghan institutional capacity in the field of applied social science research, as well as an assessment of the interest in, and potential for, further capacity building. The report ... -
Appraisal of extended rule of law project in Faryab, Afghanistan
(Norad Report Discussion 19/2010, Research report, 2010-10-26)As part of the international follow-up of the 2001 military intervention, Norway increased its engagement in Afghanistan4 from the end of 2001. In accordance with the Bonn Agreement, the goal of the engagement was to assist ... -
Approaches to teaching and learning about corruption in the health sector
(U4 Brief 2009:30, Report, 2009-12-01)Training and education programmes which deal with the topic of corruption and health can help change the way people approach their jobs as public administrators or development agency workers, and increase transparency and ... -
Arab Foreign Aid: Disbursement Patterns, Aid Policies and Motives
(Research report, Research report, 2007)This report examines Arab aid flows and aid policies, and contrasts them with the broad picture of Western practice in these areas. The lack of analysis of Arab aid in the literature is unfortunate since (1) Arab countries ... -
Are men and women equally corrupt?
(U4 Brief 2015:6, Report, 2015-06-01)The belief that women are less corrupt than men is widespread, even among development specialists. Variations in risk aversion and reciprocal behaviour may partially explain gender differences in corrupt behaviour and ... -
Are Rural Youth in Ethiopia Abandoning Agriculture?
(World Development vol. 64 no. 259-272, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12-01)This study examines current land access and livelihood choices of rural youth in Southern Ethiopia. We found that youth in rural south have limited access to agricultural land because of land scarcity and land market ... -
Arguments for democratic decentralisation in Angola: If challenges remain the same, why delay the autarquias?
(Angola Brief vol. 4 no. 6, Report, 2014-04-01)Is the Government once again going to delay local elections and democratic decentralisation? The 2010 Constitution renewed the Angolan state’s commitment to such a process, and the President of the Republic recently ... -
Armed governance: the case of the CIA-supported Afghan militias
(Small Wars and Insurgency, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-01)This article examines the genealogy and behavior of the CIA militias in Afghanistan against the backdrop of persistent armed governance whereby a plurality of actors competes over control and rule. The nonaccountable use ... -
Arreglos institucionales para la prevención de corrupción: Consideraciones para la implementación del artículo 6 de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción
(U4 Issue 2009:11, Research report, 2009-08-24)¿Qué tipo de instituciones necesita establecer un estado para prevenir la corrupción efectivamente? ¿Qué se quiere decir cuando el artículo 6 de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra la Corrupción (CNUCC) exige que ...