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The 2013 Resource Governance Index

The 2013 Resource Governance Index

revenuewatch.org –

The Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sectors of 58 countries. These nations produce 85 percent of the world's petroleum, 90 percent of diamonds and 80 percent of copper, generating trillions of dollars in annual profits. The future of these countries depends on how well they manage their oil, gas and minerals. The RGI scores and ranks the countries, relying on a detailed questionnaire completed by researchers with expertise in the more...

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D C on May 23, 2013

"Socio-Capitalism" Is This the new order world wants?

Vegitable market in Paris

sadashivan.com –

Socio Capitalism is an economic structure which privileges Communities, Individuals, Capitalists and Governments involve together to achieve Economic Goal. Thus Growth Share reaches entire population. Socio Capitalism is a system where capitalist invests and gets due reward. Its role is to invest but functions by communities and its people to promote the project and shared by all involved, encourages involved having equal interest in the growth. Government’s role does not merely sticking to more...

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sadashivan nair on May 19, 2013

Open Government: A Time for Self-Assessment

whitehouse.gov –

Since the first day of the Obama Administration, the Federal government has worked to make government more efficient, effective, and responsive to citizens’ needs. The Administration has harnessed new technology to engage the public, worked to disclose information more quickly, and given citizens a greater voice in decision-making. In September 2011, the Administration’s work was launched on the world stage when President Obama and other world leaders endorsed the principles of the global Open more...

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D C on May 17, 2013

2013 Transparency Report Card - Bringing state & local government to light

2013 Transparency Report Card - Bringing state & local government to light

ecitizens.org –

Transparency is an American issue, not a partisan issue for Republicans or Democrats to showboat. States continue to struggle with proactively disclosing lobbying data, how to obtain public records, and with increasing the ease of finding supplemental data. The five states earning the highest grades are California, Illinois, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington. The five worst states are Alabama, Kentucky Mississippi, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Even California, the best performing more...

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D C on May 7, 2013

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

Citizen voice and state accountability: Towards theories of change that embrace contextual dynamics

The development industry is increasingly pushing practitioners to achieve results, and to do better in demonstrating what works, what does not, and explaining why. There is a growing interest in going beyond the measurement of results to being able to understand the basis for success or failure. Consequently, the development of explicit theories of change (ToCs) is starting to be viewed as central to this process, as a key part of what constitutes ‘rigour’ in impact evaluations. Citizen voice more...

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D C on May 6, 2013

ELLA BRIEF: Pushing Through Reform: Lima's Disaster Risk Management Strategy

ella.practicalaction.org –

In recent years, there have been a number of important actions at the institutional level for promoting disaster risk management (DRM) in developing countries. Yet securing a city-level political commitment that ensures the required investment and specific action plans in big cities has remained a pending challenge. This Brief describes how the Municipality of Lima designed and implemented its Disaster Risk Management Strategy, in particular analysing how disaster risk management was more...

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Mark Turner on May 2, 2013

GSDRC Helpdesk Research Report: Incentivising governments to improve service delivery

Although there is substantial research on service delivery, empirical research into how development activities incentivise better service delivery is fragmented (Tavakoli 2012; Joshi 2010). It is increasingly recognised that increasing technical or financial capacity does not automatically translate into improved service delivery performance or better development results (World Bank 2003; Andrews et al. 2012). Understanding incentives has been identified as a key variable in any thinking about more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on May 1, 2013

The open parliament in the age of the internet : can the people now collaborate with legislatures in lawmaking?

bd.camara.leg.br –

This work seeks to address those questions and evaluate other international experiences and experiments designed to achieve the same ends. The book is based on a study of two particular cases where parliamentary bodies designed and implemented participatory digital processes, namely, the e-Democracy Program developed by the Brazilian House of Representatives, and the Virtual Senator Program developed by the Chilean Senate. The text unfolds in the form of a systematic analysis of institutional more...

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Moushumi Biswas on April 29, 2013

Government Defence Anti- Corruption Index 2013

Government Defence Anti- Corruption Index 2013

government.defenceindex.org –

This Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index is the first ever review of corruption risk and corruption vulnerability in Defence Ministries and Armed Forces. It offers governments, armed forces, civil society organizations, and citizens detailed knowledge and understanding of the corruption risks in their national defence and security establishments.

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Sonia Hossain on April 23, 2013

Understanding the Demand for Open Financial Data

Understanding the Demand for Open Financial Data

blogs.worldbank.org –

When it comes to open data, much has been done around what we can publish, but much more can be done on identifying what others might need and want. Many open data initiatives have been started as supply-driven efforts seeking to increase transparency and leverage new information dissemination technologies - and that’s been a good way to start. However, being supply-driven is not the only way forward – a genuinely demand-driven approach would allow data providers to respond to, rather than more...

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D C on April 18, 2013

GSDRC Topic Guide: Voice and accountability

Poor people are often excluded from participating in policy design and programmes that have direct impact on their lives, and central and local government institutions are often neither responsive nor accountable to the poor. Following the limited success of many accountability methods focusing on the state, attention has shifted towards strengthening the ‘voice’, or capacity, of ordinary citizens to directly participate in policy-making processes. This guide introduces some of the core debates more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on April 18, 2013

GSDRC Topic Guide: Service delivery

How can we ensure that basic services reach the poorest? What is the best way of involving service users and ensuring that providers are accountable to them? Are non-state service providers pro-poor, and how should the state engage with them? What are the particular challenges for delivering services in conflict or fragile environments? This guide provides an introduction to a few of the key recent debates for development practitioners involved in the provision of basic more...

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GSDRC Applied K... on April 17, 2013

Innovation, Ingenuity and Initiative

Innovation, Ingenuity and Initiative

acelg.org.au –

This project has sought to identify areas where local government has embraced the adoption and application of new ideas and sought to transform the way the business of local government is undertaken. The project outcome is a paper that focuses on innovation as the successful application of new ideas and carried forward in the domains of ideas driven innovation (relating to new products and services), demand driven innovation (meeting community expectations in new ways) and transformational more...

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Sonia Hossain on April 15, 2013

Worldwide Governance Indicators

info.worldbank.org –

The Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) project reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2011, for six dimensions of governance: Voice and AccountabilityPolitical Stability and Absence of ViolenceGovernment EffectivenessRegulatory QualityRule of LawControl of CorruptionThese aggregate indicators combine the views of a large number of enterprise, citizen and expert survey respondents in industrial and developing countries. They are more...

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John Daly on April 7, 2013

Financing Local Communities by Special Governmental Funds

Financing Local Communities by Special Governmental Funds

stec.univ-ovidius.ro –

Local budgets are characterized by a high dependence rate on transfers from the state budget, without the existence of some intense concerns on the creation of own funds. In the category of transfers from state budget there are included the amounts broken down to balance local budgets, the state subsidies and a series of financial amounts from special funds of the Government. This paper comes to detail the mechanism of local financing by the Fund of reserve and the Fund of intervention used by more...

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D C on April 4, 2013

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