| Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption Contributor(s): Shah, Anwar (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0821369415 ISBN-13: 9780821369418 Publisher: World Bank Publications OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2007 Annotation: Performance based oversight and accountability can serve as an important antidote to government corruption, inefficiency, and waste. This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability. The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, network solutions to performance measurement and improvement; institutions of accountability in governance; legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability; ensuring integrity of revenue administration; the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption; and the role of parliamentary budget offices and public accounts committees. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 352.34 |
| LCCN: 2006101263 |
| Series: Public Sector Governance and Accountability |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.22" W x 8.9" (1.32 lbs) 448 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume provides an analytical framework and operational approaches needed for the implementation of results-based accountability.The volume makes a major contribution to the literature on public management and evaluation. Major subject areas covered in this book include: performance based accountability, e-government, legal and institutional framework to hold government to account; fighting corruption; external accountability and the role of supreme audit institutions on detecting fraud and corruption. |
