International Aid Transparency Initiative

Open Development 1. What are the main challenges to aid effectiveness, and how does open data address these challenges? The main challenges to aid effectiveness are high complexity, enormous transaction costs, lack of strategic and holistic approaches, and lack of country ownership. High complexity involves the coordination between numerous international aid agencies, and within those aid agencies. The United States, for example, has been said to have contradictory, as well as competing, objectives within its aid system. This system, therefore, is said to be “disjointed and increasingly difficult to manage.” Enormous transaction costs are a result of too many cooks in the kitchen, so to speak; the saturation of separate aid agreements and…

Nations are not the only entities capable of providing aid, and much of the individual work done in foreign countries comes from the private sector of society. Military aid will almost always require a government presence, but smaller expeditions, such as volunteers sent to teach, or distribute medicine, or provide service, act independently from the government. These organizations often provide a large amount of disaster relief as well, collecting and distributing donations of food, clean…

private enterprises, public officials or politicians are sometimes used as bribery. Rose-Akerman (1999) infers that despite bribes may improve overall efficiency, most cases are not valid arguments to tolerate low level of official corruption. The defense of bribery as a tool for resource allocation appears static according to the assumption of particular sets of laws and requirements of social programmes. Illegal payoffs in a market-based system do not produce efficient outcomes. If bribes can…

In relation to the first pillar, Bannon (1999) states that the World Bank has established an oversight committee to look into allegations of corruption in bank-financed projects, including the assessment of corruption-related risks. In regards to the second pillar, Bannon (1999) states that the Word Bank supports the Anti-Bribery Convention on an international scale, and is working closely with international organizations to minimize cross-border corruption. In regards to the third pillar, the…

Pope Francis stated in his apostolic exhortation that ethics has come to be viewed in a bad manner and that it is “counterproductive, too human, because it makes money and power relative.” There are numerous instances that prove his point and that there is an ethical dimension to the economic and social political problems in our society. Society has become corrupt, so money oriented and business owners have become so greedy that ethics is often overlooked or completely forgotten about. There…

Ignorance Enables Corruption Who is at greater fault? If a tyrant is given the power, albeit to abuse, is it his fault to utilize the power given, or the fault of those who bestow the power on them? Failure cannot be pinned on just one person, but the people involved as a whole. Therefore, by indirectly causing the collapse of one's own community, it is the community's fault for acting as catalyst to the events to come. Although unintentional, it is the passiveness and ignorance of the farm…

Groenendijk (1997) in his Journal Article of Crime, Law and Social Change that principal-agent theory is a sub set of political corruption. The principal-agent theory of corruption is categories into two; the principal (one which is corrupting) and an agent (one who is corrupted). The principal-agent model is used to political corruption in representatives democracies yet not limited to bureaucratic corruption. According to Handbook of Dispute Resolution by Michael and Robert (2005), who…

Bell California is known as the worst corruption scandal in California history. (Mcgrath, 2013). In this community the officials manipulated the local charter and subverted the electoral process to give themselves hefty salaries and other forms of payment. These corrupt officials were using provision of their home rule charter without the knowledge of voters. By using a system of patronage, they were able to corner and manipulate member of high society and the government. This was largely due to…

These countries will reside on either side of the spectra of the corruption index. The Corruption Perceptions Index is a measurement conducted by the Transparency International Organization that gives a ranking of numbers between 1-100 for each country, with a lower number indicating a more perceived corrupt country. In this study, the dependent variable will be the CPI ranking subtracted from 100, thus in our data, the higher the number a country is scored, the more corruption is perceived to…

This is unfortunate because the individuals at the center of the book acknowledged that education is one of the only avenues out of the conditions they live in. One of the main characters, Asha, can be characterized as a “slum boss,” and is also the head of and teacher at a “bridge” school that is funded through a foreign aid organization. The funding for this school comes from an outside aid organization because “spreading educational opportunity was not among the Indian government’s strong…