Brief 12 from REPOA examines citizens’ perceptions of local taxation, investigating why residents do or do not pay local taxes, and their perceptions of misuse of tax revenue. Respondents’ opinions are given on: - why people pay local taxes; - their perception of the provision of public services which are financed by tax revenue collection; perceptions of misuse of tax revenues, and reporting corruption within local taxation systems.

The brief is based on the findings from two surveys co more...

Newsline on corruption in Australia and New Zealand.

'This publication presents the findings of the Initiative’s 2005-2006 thematic review on curbing corruption in public procurement. It highlights trends, approaches and achievements across 25 jurisdictions in Asia and the Pacific in a comparative overview that also presents a framework to guide policy development. It also contains reports on individual jurisdictions that provide details on existing policies in national contexts and on key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.'

'Doing Business (DB), an annual World Bank-IFC publication launched in 2004, is one of the Bank Group's flagship knowledge products. It
measures the burden of selected business regulations in 178 countries and ranks the countries on 10 dimensions. The program's stated objective is to advance the World Bank Group's private sector development agenda in four ways: motivate reforms through country benchmarking; inform the design of reforms; enrich international initiatives on development effectiven more...

This FAO legislative study analyses the normative content of the right to adequate food in emergency situations, examining the provisions of human rights law as well as those of other relevant branches of international law, including international humanitarian law, refugee law, criminal law, economic law and environmental law. The study uses the analytical framework classifying the obligations relating to the right to adequate food in obligation to respect, obligation to protect and obligation t more...

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.'

'A destructive combination of earthquakes, floods, droughts and other hazards make South Asia the world's most disaster-prone region. The effects are aggravated by climate change, unsuitable social and development policies, and environmental degradation. The effect is to slow or block development and keep millions trapped in poverty.

Oxfam's experience shows that successful disaster risk reduction policies, integrated into development work, save lives and money, making vulnerable communities more...

'Corruption is a world-wide phenomeon, far from being confined to developing countries. Neverthless, it does constitute a special problem in the developing world.'

The report by Navdanya is in two parts. The first part lists the World Bank projects in three categories – loans given from 1950-1990, water restructuring projects from 1990-2005, and projects at approval stage. The second part of the report includes case studies of World Bank driven water privatization projects in Delhi, Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The case studies reveal a pattern. Firstly, the
World Bank is using its loans as conditionality for privatisation. Secondly, it is more...