Governance : 13 new items

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1. Latin America: The Use - and Abuse - of Development Aid
2. Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR): Fades or Realities?
3. Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge
4. Nigeria: Analysing the Freedom of Information Bill
5. Survey finds corruption is rife in UK construction sector
6. Serbia's lack of official data and expertise helps money launderers
7. Advocating for Women's Participation in Afghanistan's Supreme Court
8. Civil Society improves Governance and Poverty: Evidence from Six Country
Studies
9. Open Budget Index
10. Britain's New White Paper: Making Governance Work for the Poor
11. The Fifth Annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index
12. E-Voting Conference in Estonia
13. Abolombon: An online resource pool on Legal, Human Right & Governance
information in Bangladesh
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1. Latin America: The Use - and Abuse - of Development Aid
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1078
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Hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid flows into the poorest
countries of Latin America every year. But the money does not always reach
its destination. For that reason, governments and civil society
organisations have begun to apply new...
Contributed by Velina Luhur on 22 Oct , 2006

2. Corporate and Social Responsibility (CSR): Fades or Realities?
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"Over the last couple of years, we have been witnessing a growing surge
about the concept of CSR gearing toward the linkages between corporate
strategies, business ethics and sustainable development. As an interesting
framework, those trends have...
Contributed by emmanuel Asomba on 24 Oct , 2006

3. Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge
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Promoting the rule of law has become a major part of Western efforts to
spread democracy and market economics around the world. Yet, although
programs to foster the rule of law abroad have mushroomed, well-grounded
knowledge about what factors ensure...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 24 Oct , 2006

4. Nigeria: Analysing the Freedom of Information Bill
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The current state of access to information in Nigeria is rather very poor.
Most government institutions are enmeshed in the culture of secrecy, which
insulates governments and their actions from public scrutiny. In fact, there
is hardly any law which...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 24 Oct , 2006

5. Survey finds corruption is rife in UK construction sector
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Corruption is rife in the UK construction industry according to a survey
released last week by the Chartered Institute of Building. The survey found
that 41 per cent of its 1,404 respondents had been offered a bribe at least
once and 51 per cent...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 24 Oct , 2006

6. Serbia's lack of official data and expertise helps money launderers
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1078
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Legislation may be in place, but without consistent and reliable data, the
fight against economic crimes in Serbia is severely hampered, says an OSCE
report. By Georgi Mitev-Santek for Southeast European Times in Belgrade --
23/10/06.

Contributed by Boris Demidov on 24 Oct , 2006

7. Advocating for Women's Participation in Afghanistan's Supreme Court
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1078
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Although women judges can be found in Afghanistan's lower courts system, and
both the Family and Juvenile Court are headed by women, female
representation in the country's justice sector as a whole remains limited
and confined to lower levels. The...
Contributed by Anuradha Bhattacharjee on 24 Oct , 2006

8. Civil Society improves Governance and Poverty: Evidence from Six Country
Studies
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Over the past year, the Washington-based International Budget Project and
the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex have been
working together to produce in-depth case studies of six established budget
groups. The objective of...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 25 Oct , 2006

9. Open Budget Index
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On October 18, 2006 civil society organizations from 59 countries around the
world have unveiled the Open Budget Index. This is the first index to rate
countries on how open their budget books are to their citizens. It is
intended to provide...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 25 Oct , 2006

10. Britain's New White Paper: Making Governance Work for the Poor
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1078
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An article by Mick Moore and Sue Unsworth "Britain's New White Paper: Making
Governance Work for the Poor", in Development Policy Review, Volume 24,
November 2006.

Contributed by Joanna Adcock on 26 Oct , 2006

11. The Fifth Annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1079
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New countries have moved ahead of some Western democracies in the fifth
annual Reporters Without Borders Worldwide Press Freedom Index, issued on
October 24, while the most repressive countries are still the same ones. The
three worst violators of...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 26 Oct , 2006

12. E-Voting Conference in Estonia
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The second panel examines the legal and constitutional issues associated
with e-voting. There are an array of legal questions?freedom, equality,
secrecy, and the like?but auditability is perhaps the most important aspect
of the process because it is...
Contributed by Boris Demidov on 28 Oct , 2006

13. Abolombon: An online resource pool on Legal, Human Right & Governance
information in Bangladesh
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/governance/rc/ItemDetail.do?itemId=1079
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www.abolombon.org was hosted by Development Research Network to provide
legal and human right information relevant to Bangladesh. This website is
developed in Bangla language. This website contains information on relevant
laws, legal redress, legal...
Contributed by Mahmud Hasan on 27 Oct , 2006

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