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About accountability & Legitimacy Fighting corruption has become a policy priority for the development community over the past two decades and extensive reform efforts have been launched. These reforms build on the idea that corruption is a dysfunction of public administration that emerges in the presence of monopoly and discretion, which in turn can be curbed by promoting accountability and transparency. Corruption undermines policies and programs that aim to reduce poverty, so attacking corruption is critical to the achievement of the Bank's overarching mission of poverty reduction. Read More » Featured 1 of 6 Anti-Corruption Day 2011 On 31 October 2003, the UN General Assembly adopted the UN Convention Against Corruption and designated 9 December as International Anti-Corruption Day. The UN, UNDP, and the World Bank commemorate this event today... Read More » International Anti-Corruption Academy The IACA's "Practice Meets Science" approach brings together national and international practitioners from public and private sectors, students, media, NGOs, academics... Read More » Financial Disclosure by Public Officials: Practices, Challenges, and Lessons Learned in Asia The conference (March 28-29, 2012 ~ Bangkok, Thailand) promoted knowledge-sharing on financial disclosure systems for public officials, and fostered regional and country-level dialogue ... Read More » Strengthening Governance, Tackling Corruption: World Bank Updated Strategy & Implementation Plan The updated strategy & implementation plan are now available... Read More » Oslo Governance Forum UNDEF, ActionAid, ACT Alliance, World Bank Institute, and PRIA Global Partnership focus on participatory governance assessments & social accountability... [10/2011] Read More » Partnerships Against Corruption November 29, 2011; Paris School of Economics. Featured in this seminar is a session on the International Handbook of Corruption by Susan Rose Ackerman, Yale Law School Read More » Data Actionable Governance Indicators AGI Data Portal provides one-stop-shop navigation platform and tools for data management, analysis and display. multimedia NOTEWORTHY Just Launched! (12/9/11): Anti-Corruption Agencies (ACA) A sharing platform & meeting ground for ACAs, anti-corruption practitioners, & other international actors. TRACK - On Track Against Corruption Tools & Resources for Anti-Corruption Knowledge by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Read More » Data Tracking Mechanism (DTM) Using existing data, a corruption monitoring tool was developed to track corruption in Uganda on an annual basis. Read More » BLOGs Africa can... end poverty: "Raising the volume on quiet Corruption" Read More » How corruption and tax evasion distort development Read More » Other blogs: Governance Blog Global Integrity PFM Blog: Anticorruption activities Actionable Governance Indicators (AGI) Initiative Anti-corruption Agencies (ACAs) Country Diagnostic Surveys on Governance & Anti-corruption Open Government Public Accountability Mechanisms Income Asset Disclosure PUBLICATIONS [FORTHCOMING] The Cost of Corruption Fighting Corruption in Public Services: Chronicling Georgia's Reforms Forest Governance 2.0 : A Primer on ICTs and Governance Public Office, Private Interests REIS Issue 138 The 2011 Africa Leadership Scorecard Anticorruption Research News (12/11) Contextual Choices in Fighting Corruption: Lessons Learned 2011 Corruption Perception Index (TI) EU Anticorruption Report Governance and Structure of the Railway Industry: Three Pillars Handbook of Global Research and Practice in Corruption \| Read the review [PDF 665.8K] Income and Asset Declarations: Tools and Trade-offs International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption (Vol 2) ¿Obstáculos o herramientas? Los usos de las investigaciones de casos sobre corrupción en las políticas públicas [PDF 122K] PAPI 2011 Full Report [PDF 11M] Results of Questionnaire on anti-corruption incentives & sanctions for businesses Sourcebook for 21 Social Accountability Tools U4 Brief: Corruption & REDD+ Identifying risks amid complexity More » EXTERNAL VIDEOS Shaffi Mather: A New Way to Fight Corruption PBS Special: Black Money Restoring Trust: Global Action for Transparency Contact Us Send us an email at PSGovernance@ worldbank.org EXTERNAL RESOURCES Asian Development Bank AusAID Civil Society Against Corruption DataGov International Anti-Corruption Academy Global Anti-Corruption Portal Global Integrity Global Witness OECD Anti-Bribery Convention The Policy Practice Transparency International TRACE International More » WORLD BANK RESOURCES Africa Development Indicators Governance & Anti-Corruption (GAC) Knowledge portal GAC in Projects Integrity Vice Presidency Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative IN THE NEWS UPDATE 4 - SNC Lavalin vows to get to bottom of miscunduct[5/3/2012] Websites shine light on petty bribery worldwide [3/6/2012] More » wb events Doing Business Research Conference [12/6-7/12] - Call for papers [Submissions by 4/30/12] outside the wb Call for IACC Workshop Proposals [Submissions by 5/31/12] ANNOUNCEMENT: Ethics Challenge in Public Service 3rd Edition ELLA Learning Alliance on Citizen Oversight [Starting 19 March 2012] Innovations in Public Management for Combating Corruption [Honolulu, 6/2012]] The Economics of Corruption [University of Passau, 10/6-13/12] Call for Papers for a special issues of the Journal of Economics & Statistics: "Corruption at the Grassroots Level..." [due 12/1/12] DataGov accesses public available indicators related to governance. It contains approximately 800 governance indicators for a global comparison across countries and across time... Read More » Country Diagnostic Surveys on Governance & Anti-Corruption Maps and measures critical public sector governance issues that feed into participatory and targeted reform planning... Read More » StAR Asset Recovery Watch Launched by the World Bank Group and the UNODC, it is the first systematic compilation of past and current recovery cases involving corruption... Read More »

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