Documents
Background Materials:
This section contains background documentation only. For presentations made during the conference, please visit the Programme Section.
Governance and Anti-Corruption
- World Bank Strategy Paper on Governance and Anti Corruption
- "Research on Corruption and Its Control: The State of the Art" Report, World Bank Institute, Wharton School, CSIS - Hills Program on Governance
- World Bank Institute: Governance and Anti-Corruption
- Conducting Business Responsibly
- United Nations Global Compact 10th Principle
- Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index
- "Corruption and anti-corruption efforts" by Verena Fritz, November 2006
- "Governance and aid effectiveness: Has the White Paper got it right?" by Julius Court
- "How to move forward on governance and corruption" by Verena Fritz
Measuring Governance
- World Bank Update on Governance and Anti Corruption Strategy
- OECD Report on the Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators
- OECD Working Paper – Towards Better Measurement of Government
- World Bank Doing Business Database
- World Bank Governance Data: Web-Interactive Inventory of Datasets and Empirical Tools
- World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Report
- World Bank Institute: Governance Indicators
- Measuring Governance Worldwide: Possibilities, Pitfalls, and Applications of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) & others
The Role of the Private Sector
- World Bank Institute: Business, Competitiveness and Development Team Website
- World Bank: Investment Climate Surveys
- "Towards a More Systematic Fight against Corruption: The Role of the Private Sector" Report, World Bank Institute, Wharton School and UN Global Compact
- "Click the Refresh Button - Investment Climate Reconsidered" by Daniel Kaufmann
- "Governing the Investment Climate" by Raj M. Desai and Sanjay Pradhan
- "Corruption and Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence" by Beata K. Smarzynska and Shang-Jing Wei
- The Global Competitiveness Report by the World Economic Forum
- "Assessing the Effects of Corruption and Crime on Firm Performance: Evidence from Latin America" by Alejandro Gaviria
- "Corruption and Firm Performance in Africa" by John McArthur and Francis Teal
- "Combating Corruption: Private Sector Perspectives and Solutions" by John D. Sullivan and Aleksandr Shkolnikov
Partnerships to Combat Corruption
- World Bank Institute: Development Outreach issue on 'Fighting Corruption: Business as Partner'
- World Bank Institute Business, Competitiveness and Development Team Web Portal on Business-Led Initiatives to Combat Corruption
- "Non-State Actors Matters for Public Governance: An unorthodox empirical perspective" by Daniel Kaufmann
- "Governance, development and aid effectiveness: A quick guide to complex relationships" by Julius Court, Goran Hyden and Kenneth Mease, March 2006
- Meeting summaries and audio from all the meetings in the ODI (Re)building developmental states meeting series, January-June 2006
Governance and Capacity Development
- Building Effective States, Forging Engaged Societies: Report of the World Bank Task Force on Capacity Development in Africa
- OECD Governance and Capacity Development
- CSIS Hills Program on Governance
- OECD Working Paper: The Challenge of Capacity Development: Working Towards Good Practice
- Scaling Up Poverty Reduction: Case Studies and Global Learning Process
- OECD Working Paper: The Challenge of Capacity Development
- Monitoring the Paris Declaration
Young/Future Leaders
At the Conference
