Civil service reform and anti-corruption in developing countries: Tools and evidence from eight countries in four developing regions This project generated the largest cross-country survey of civil servants ever conducted…
The role of parliaments in curbing corruption at the country level This project investigated how national parliaments contribute to curbing corruption, challenging the ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to strong parliamentary oversight. Through…
Informal governance and corruption: Transcending the principal-agent and collective action paradigms This project explored how informal governance practices sustain corruption in countries that have strong formal anti-corruption frameworks. Through comparative…
The project designs and implements state-of-the-art ethics training courses with civil servants in Nepal and Bangladesh and evaluates their effects on corruption and (un)ethical behaviour in a field experiment.
Most countries have different agencies performing top-down audits and social audits. This project investigates the interaction between different types of audits and the effects on service delivery, using evidence on leakages in two major public works programmes across states in India.
This project works from the theory that fostering collective pride in good governance and providing a positive recognition for local leaders who forego corruption will decrease corruption in a national park revenue-sharing programme in western Uganda.
Building on Phase 1 findings that uncovered informal practices of networks of political, business, and social actors that undermine anti-corruption efforts, this project works with case studies from East Africa and Central Asia to explore how anti-corruption interventions can explicitly factor in existing informal networks.
This project focuses on how professional communities of planners in South Africa and Zambia live up to their roles as drivers of integrity.