Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption

Anwar Shah

No 6732 in World Bank Publications - Books from The World Bank Group

Abstract: his volume provides advice on how to institutionalize performance-based accountability, especially in countries that lack good accountability systems. The volume describes how institutions of accountability may be strengthened to combat corruption. The volume is organized into two parts. The first part deals with public management reforms to ensure the integrity and improve the efficiency of government operations. It outlines an agenda for public management reforms and discusses the roles of e-government and network solutions in performance improvements. The second part of the volume provides advice on strengthening the role of representative institutions, such as organs and committees of parliament, in providing oversight of government programs. It also provides guidance on how auditing and related institutions can be used to detect fraud and corruption. The book highlights the causes of corruption and the use of both internal and external accountability institutions and mechanisms to fight it. It provides advice on how to tailor anticorruption programs to individual country circumstances and how to sequence reform efforts to ensure sustainability. This volume presents the latest thinking of leading development scholars on operationalizing such a governance framework. The focus of this volume is creating performance-based accountability and oversight when there is no bottom line. Each chapter addresses an important dimension of such a framework. The four chapters in part I are concerned with integrity and efficiency in public management. The nine chapters of part II are concerned with institutions and mechanisms to hold government to account.

Keywords: Public; Sector; Corruption; and; Anticorruption; Measures; Corruption; and; Anticorruption; Law; Public; Sector; Expenditure; Analysis; and; Management; Governance-National; Governance; Governance-Governance; Indicators; Law; and; Development; Public; Sector; Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-8213-6941-8
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