Judicial reform has become an increasingly important focus for national governments and international donors, including Norway. This study analyses the ...

Creating a viable judiciary and strengthening its democratic functions has been a main concern of both governments and donors over the last two decades. ...

This U4 Issue Paper translates lessons related to monitoring judicial reform to the specific requirements of UNCAC Article 11. Taking the Paris Declaration’s ...

Corrupt judicial systems undermine reforms and are a major impediment to ensuring access to justice and human rights for ordinary citizens across the world, says a new report published by the United Nations Development Programme and U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre on 8 April. Titled, A Transparent and Accountable Judiciary to Deliver Justice for All, the report cites survey data suggesting that the public perceive the judiciary as the second most corrupt public institution, after the police.

New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ own choice. ...

This U4 study investigates whether and how the judicial sector could benefit from anti-corruption measures that have proved useful in other sectors in ...

An independent and impartial justice system underpins the effective implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Where ...

The anti-corruption reform in the Tanzanian tax bureaucracy in the mid-1990s was apparently a short-lived success. In the wake of the reform, a number ...

Market reforms in developing and transition economies have sometimes failed to deliver the desired welfare effects. Corruption may be an important reason ...

This article is about judicial reform in the Southern Cone in the 1990s. It shows that for Argentina and Chile, procedural code reforms were motivated ...

Since 2010, Angola has been implementing a tax reform aiming to increase non-oil tax revenues. This brief addresses main achievements of the reform since ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that there are ...

Security sector reform addresses two main challenges: (1) assisting institutions capable of providing security for the state and its citizens and (2) ...

Since the year 2000, an international reform process has been underway to reduce the negative impacts of tax havens. This paper analyzes whether the reform ...

After almost 25 years of war, the formal justice sector in Afghanistan is dysfunctional, and comprehensive reform of both laws and institutions have ...

  Angola experienced an extraordinary oil boom between 2004 and 2014. During this period, oil revenue accounted for 80% of all government revenue. ...

Can improved revenue collection and tax policies provide for more democratically accountable government? The chapter discusses the relationship between ...

This paper reviews the tax system in Tanzania, and gives particular attention to the tax reform proposals presented in the Report of the Presidential ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that there are ...

The article reviews the discussion on the issue of land reform within Zimbabwe and the various explanations advanced in the literature of why redistribution ...