Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption
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....
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/01/8060115/performance-accountability-combating-corruption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6732 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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