Corruption and mismanagement of public resources can affect the quality of government services and undermine growth … providing social accountability training and information on project performance can lead to improvements in local development … improvements in household welfare. However, providing either social accountability training or project quality information by …

study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …

study of informal audits and text messages to parents, meant to curb corruption in the School Meals Program of Colombia …

Community-based accountability interventions have shown potential to improve delivery of public services, but there is … study the effectiveness of social accountability interventions implemented by the Indian state government of Uttar Pradesh … randomized trial design, we investigate two key mechanisms through which accountability interventions are hypothesized to improve …

, development and accountability with program outcomes. Our findings have important implications for both the design and …

Using firm-level data from more than 39,000 firms in 111 economies, this paper tests the hypothesis that corruption … between corruption and firm productivity when regulation is high and an insignificant relationship when it is low. These …

children in primary school. We find significant correlations between cooperativeness and participation in school accountability …It has been argued that accountability is a public good that only citizens can provide. Governments can put … if accountability is to be achieved. Thus, citizens face a social dilemma - participate in holding public servants to …