Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth … providing social accountability training and information on project performance can lead to improvements in local development … improvements in household welfare. However, providing either social accountability training or project quality information by …

Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …

absenteeism, accountability, and student learning. This paper explores this idea using data from 16,000 teachers across eight … developing countries, spanning five regions. It finds that, on average, teachers support test-based accountability and believe …-performing and well-resourced students. Finally, the paper shows that ideas of accountability and absenteeism are strongly framed by …

data with greater government accountability as well as improved service delivery in key sectors, including health and … levels of accountability and improved service delivery in developing countries? To answer this question, the paper constructs … a unique data set that operationalizes open government data, government accountability, service delivery, as well as …

findings point to a negative effect of local corruption, yet a positive effect of local authorities' discretion over tax and … communities with low corruption and comparatively high-level of raising revenue ability have the highest rate of positive …