Public accountability reform in a Nigerian ministry

Reform of the Malawian Public Sector Incentives, Governance and Accountability

Since the early 1990s, Malawi has tried to undertake economic reforms, including the restructuring of the public sector, even as it embraced democratic reforms. Paucity of human and financial resources has made the process difficult and drawn out. However, towards the end of the 1990s, the reforms began to bear fruit. Notably, the efficiency of the civil service improved, while the government c...

Ministry of Public Health - Lebanon

1. Unified Beneficiaries Database In 2003, a unified Beneficiaries Database was created, including beneficiaries of the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), National Social Security Fund (NSSF), Civil Servants Cooperative (CSC), Army, Internal Security Forces (ISF), General Security Forces (GSF) and State Security Forces (SSF). The unification of beneficiaries information implied that doublecovera...

Public Accountability of Autonomous Public Organizations

E-governance, Accountability, and Leakage in Public Programs: Experimental Evidence from a Financial Management Reform in India

Can e-governance reforms that reduce advance funds available to local administrators enhance accountability and reduce the leakage of public funds? We investigate this question via a large field experiment and the nationwide scale-up of a financial reform to India’s employment guarantee program. The reform replaced advance payments, authorized by intermediate administrative tiers, with direct i...

Public sector governance and accountability

The collection of papers in this special issue has primarily been drawn from the papers representing the ‘‘Corporate Governance and accountability in the Public Sector’’ stream of the Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS 7), which was held at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in July 2011. The stream was inspired by international reforms focussed on the m...