Research on the economic consequences of corruption has been hampered by the inability to directly measure corruption. Using an innovative methodology that allows respondents to report individual experiences with corruption while minimizing self-incrimination and an objective diagnostic to...

This paper examines the potential role of civil society action in increasing state accountability for development in Sub-Saharan Africa. It further develops the analytical framework of the World Development Report 2004 on accountability relationships, to emphasize the underlying political...

Does radio access improve public service provision? And if so, does it do so by increasing government accountability to citizens, or by persuading households to take advantage of publicly-provided services? Prior research has argued that citizens with greater access to mass media receive greater...

The paper has the goal to present a method to improve the social requirements of the quality-social accountability-health and safety integrated management system with the social requirements of the Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) Code of conduct because SA 8000 standard have to...

While many African countries do not have a strong track record of managing mineral wealth well, Ghana is often considered a model of best practice, based on the government׳s distribution of a proportion of mining rents to mining affected communities. However, corruption and mismanagement by...

Microfinance has been heralded as an effective way to address imperfections in credit markets. But from a theoretical perspective, the success of microfinance contracts has puzzling elements. In particular, the group-based mechanisms often employed are vulnerable to free-riding and collusion,...