CIPE partners focus on combating corruption around the world. The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) strengthens democracy around the globe through private enterprise and market-oriented reform.
CIPE is one of the four core institutes of the National Endowment for Democracy. Since 1983, CIPE has worked with business leaders, policymakers, and journalists to build the civic institutions vital to a democratic society. CIPE’s key program areas include anti-corruption, advocacy, business associations, corporate governance, democratic governance, access to information, the informal sector and property rights, and women and youth. CIPE’s most recent quarterly newsletter, the OverseasREPORT, highlights CIPE partners’ numerous anti-corruption efforts around the world.
Combating corruption is not simply about prosecuting the biggest offenders; it is also about changing the local day-to-day mindset. India’s Anti-Corruption Agency in the Global Integrity Report 2009. Madhumita D.
Mitra The Global Integrity (GI) Report 2009 rates India as moderately capable of handling the “cancer” of corruption (70 on 100). With its legal framework scoring 86 (strong), India’s actual implementation of accountability mechanisms and transparency is only 55 (very weak) leaving a very large implementation gap of 31. Unlike other corruption indices, the GI Index does not measure corruption, but using responses to 300+ Integrity Indicators, it assesses “the access that citizens and businesses have to a country's government, their ability to monitor its behaviour, and their ability to seek redress and advocate for improved governance” as a measure of a government’s ability to prevent abuse of power and promote public integrity. Why anti-corruption agencies (ACAs) fail has been well documented through the experiences of many countries. These causes may well apply to ACAs in India because the flaws are largely institutional. Madhumita D. Tackling corruption: is the infrastructure in place?
Yamini Aiyar Speaking at the biennial conference of the CBI and State Anti-Corruption Bureaus, the Indian Prime Minister reflected on the ‘malaise of corruption’ that is ‘sapping our efforts to march ahead as a nation’.
He spoke about the urgent need for tackling corruption immediately and effectively, and urged anti-corruption agencies to ‘make the cost of corruption unacceptably high’. Effective enforcement measures are one small element of a wider strategy to tackle corruption. As the PM argued, the primary purpose they serve is to create an environment of deterrence, in the absence of which corruption becomes a low-risk activity. It is for this reason that we ought to pay some attention to the effectiveness of our current institutional structure for tackling corruption. At the Centre, corruption cases against senior public officials are handled by the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC). What can be done to reform our anti-corruption systems? Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption. Is transparency an effective anti-corruption strategy? Evidence from a field experiment in India. Corruption in the news.
Corruption - Who will bell the cat? Public Accountability, Corruption Control and Service Delivery. THE BUDGETARY PROCESS. Presentation of Budget 2.
The Budget is presented to Lok Sabha in two parts, namely, the Railway Budget pertaining to Railway Finance and the General Budget which gives an overall picture of the financial position of the Government of India, excluding the Railways. 3. The Budget is presented to Lok Sabha on such day* as the President may direct. Immediately after the presentation of the Budget, the following three statements under the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act, 2003 are also laid on the Table of * By convention the Railway Budget is presented sometime in the third week of February at 1200 hours after the Question Hour. Lok Sabha:- (i) The Medium Term Fiscal Policy Statement; (ii) The Fiscal Policy Strategy Statement; and (iii) The Macro Economic Framework Statement. Distribution of Budget Papers 4.
Discussion on the Budget 5. Allotment of Time for Discussion 6. 7. General Discussion on the Budget 8. 9. Discussion on Demands for Grants 10. Cut Motions 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Obtaining a Driver's License in India: An Experimental Approach to Studying Corruption. Corruption Perceptions Index. Accountability Initiative, India.