• Corruption and doing business in Serbia 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Brief 2007:11, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up 99% of Serbian companies, employing 53% of the working population, this is ...
    • Corruption in Bosnia and Herzegovina 2005. Options for Swedish Development Cooperation 2006-2010 

      Devine, Vera; Mathisen, Harald (Research report, Research report, 2005)
      In Bosnia and Herzegovina, we find that corruption exists in all its facets – bribery, nepotism, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, tax fraud, illegal rent seeking, kick-back schemes etc. The victims of corruption ...
    • Corruption in Montenegro 2007: Overview over Main Problems and Status of Reforms 

      Trivunovic, Marijana; Devine, Vera; Mathisen, Harald (Research report, Research report, 2007-09-12)
      This report was commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to provide an analysis of corruption and the progress of anti-corruption activities in Montenegro, with the objective of ...
    • Corruption in Serbia 2007. Overview of Problems and Status of Reforms 

      Trivunovic, Marijana; Devine, Vera; Mathisen, Harald (Research report, Research report, 2007)
      Corruption is one of the most important problems facing Serbia. While there are some indications that corruption may have become less rampant in recent years, available evidence suggests that corruption levels are still ...
    • From Paris to the anti-corruption project: Examining the feasibility of ownership 

      Devine, Vera; Trivunovic, Marijana; Mathisen, Harald (U4 Practice Insight 2010:1, Report, 2010-01-04)
      This Practice Insight summarises lessons learned from four case studies conducted to examine what bearing the notion of ownership has on anti-corruption interventions involving the private sector. By demonstrating how ...
    • Keep on talking! Review of the Nansen dialogue network in the western Balkans 

      Devine, Vera; Nikolic, Varja; Stokke, Hugo (Research report, Research report, 2008)
      The review considered whether NDN activities have contributed to improved ethnic relations and to sustainable peace and reconciliation in the Western Balkans by promoting inter-ethnic dialogue. The review found that NDN ...
    • Lessons learned from the evaluation of five Council of Europe projects 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Practice Insight 2011:2, Report, 2011-02-11)
      How successful are donor supported anti-corruption reforms? In this Practice Insight, the author takes a look at the evaluation of five large-scale technical assistance projects and gives an insight as to why we might not ...
    • NGOs and corruption in post-war reconstruction: The case of Bosnia's refugee return 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Practice Insight 2011:3, Report, 2011-02-15)
      In this Practice Insight, the author discusses post-war corruption challenges based on the reconstruction effort and return of refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It describes the dilemmas implementing NGOs were facing ...