This document on crime and corruption in 2008 has been compiled by Human Rights Documentation, Indian Social Institute, Lodi Road, New Delhi

'The Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) in India has begun to share with citizens a large amount of information related to corruption. The CVC website has published the names of officers from the elite administrative and revenue services against whom investigations have been ordered or penalties imposed for corruption. Newsweek magazine carried an article about this effort, calling it E-shame.'

Dehesa’s (2001) review find that fiscal policy can be used as a stabilizing tool of economic activity either through the work of the built in “automatic stabilizers”, through discretionary tax or expenditure measures or through both. Dehesa (2001) discusses about a study by Fatás and Mihov (2000) where they took the size of the government as a sample proxy for the automatic stabilizers, find that the size of governments is clearly inversely related to the volatility of GDP. Fatás and Mih more...

Participatory monitoring is a powerful tool to prevent and solve conflicts. The CAO gained extensive experience in this field during its involvement in the Yanacocha Project in Peru. The CAO has produced a series of monographs with lessons learned from its work around the Yanacocha mining project. This advisory piece takes these lessons one step further by providing hands-on guidance for implementing successful participatory monitoring programs. The report provides examples of practical models t more...

This link leads one to the overview of the Report of the Growth Commission

For UNDP, the right to information is a key underpinning for work in democratic governance and is vital for promoting ‘open governance’ and the accountability of public decision makers as well as for strengthening transparency, participation and the rule of law. The right to information is not only fundamental for an open and democratic society but is a key weapon in the fight against poverty and in accelerating human development.

The UNDP Oslo Governance Centre convened a seminar on the more...

This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2007: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence/Terrorism, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. The data reflect the views on governance of public sector, private sector and NGO experts, as well as thousands of citizen an more...

This year’s updated version of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), compiled by Daniel Kaufmann and Massimo Mastruzzi of the World Bank Institute and Aart Kraay of the Development Research Group, shows many developing country governments making important gains in control of corruption, and some of them matching rich country performance in overall governance measures.

Assisting developing countries in improving governance is a strategic priority of Asian Development Bank in its work to reduce poverty in Asia and the Pacific.

Many local authorities in Tanzania have reformed their tax collection systems in recent years in order to increase their revenue. Brief 10 from REPOA examines recent experiences with privatised revenue collection in seven urban and rural councils in Tanzania, with particular focus on outsourcing of revenue collection to private agents.