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Public Administration Reform and Anti-Corruption: Pushing the Limits or Understanding its Dynamics?

  • Journal of Regional Studies and Development
  • Abbr : JRSD
  • 2008, 17(2), pp.45-62
  • Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies

Jairo Acuna-Affaro 1

1UNDP, Viet Nam

ABSTRACT

Is anti-corruption important to public administration reform? Or is public administration reform important for the fight against corruption? How are anti-corruption and public administration reform inter-linked? How can public administration reform areas be prioritized in order to push up anti-corruption agenda? How to prioritize and sequence reform/strategies in these two broad and complex policy areas? This paper aims to provide initial approximations on how to answer these questions. Considering corruption as a symptom of outcomes of unresolved governance and public administration, this paper argues that public administration reform and anti-corruption cannot be treated as separate processes on their own. The paper discusses the importance of data collection and highlights how some APEC economies have managed to improve both public administration and anti-corruption by way of collecting data. In addition, the fight against corruption does not happen in a vacuum and needs to be tailored down to country specifics. Therefore while public administration reform and anti-corruption are mutually reinforcing each other, attention should be paid to levels and degrees.

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