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Public financial management weaknesses can lead to corruption
Public financial management weaknesses can lead to corruption

Public financial management weaknesses can lead to corruption

Mauritania’s experience Global corruption trends Two recent reports on Global corruption trends highlight a number of states facing serious challenges and our analysis indicates some interesting links between corruption and standards of public financial management. Transparency International’s recently released 2016…

Timor-Leste Public Financial Management Profile
Timor-Leste Public Financial Management Profile

Timor-Leste Public Financial Management Profile

Introduction This note presents a series of charts which provide an overview of Timor-Leste’s recent public financial management (PFM) performance based on this country’s 2014 Public Expenditure and Financial Accountability (PEFA) assessment. Comparisons are made between Timor-Leste’s performance and the…

International Development and the Challenge of Public Sector Corruption
International Development and the Challenge of Public Sector Corruption

International Development and the Challenge of Public Sector Corruption

By David Fellows, John Leonardo and Cornelia Körtl[1] Revelations in the Panama Papers released earlier this month have focused international attention on the hidden financial structures that facilitate the transfer of assets obtained through both legal and criminal means to…