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Jan
12
2009
12:30—2:00 PM
December 31, 2008
The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a multisectoral initiative designed to help resource rich developing countries improve their governance. Although adherence is voluntary, participating governments are required to publish resource revenues and firms operating in these countr...
Dec
10
2008
10:00—11:30 AM
December 01, 2008
Why do some young democracies fail? Drawing on a unique data set of every democratization episode since 1960, The Fate of Young Democracies explores the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world’s fledgling democracies and offers proposals for ways that the international community...
WHITE HOUSE AND THE WORLD POLICY BRIEFS
November 04, 2008
The United States has played a leadership role in the fight against
global corruption, and there aremany reasons to be hopeful
about this effort. Nonetheless, corruption continues to seriously
impede development efforts around the world, and the critical
task of combating it will require both lo...
Oct
16
2008
4:30—6:00 PM
October 09, 2008
In their new book Economic Gangsters, Raymond Fisman and co-author Edward Miguel take readers into the secretive, chaotic, and brutal worlds inhabited by these lawless and violent thugs. These two sleuthing economists follow the foreign aid money trail into the grasping hands of corrupt governments ...
REPORTS
October 02, 2008
With the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corp. (MCC) soon to release the scorecards and performance data that form the basis of the FY09 country selection round, Sheila Herrling and Amy Crone examine how countries fare on the control of corruption indicator, the only “hard hurdle” that countries must pass...
September 05, 2008
The tension between MCC oversight and country ownership is also evident in the area of procurement, which is both the foundation of effective and timely implementation and the area most prone to corruption in foreign assistance projects. Getting the balance right between managing effective implemen...