Catalog

This report examines the relevance of accrual budgeting and accounting in government for ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs), providing background and guidance on the issue. It presents practical suggestions on how DMCs may improve their government accounting arrangements in a gradual, systematic manner.

This book offers insight into the most recent national anticorruption strategies of Asian and Pacific countries, and an overview of preventive and enforcement policies and practices, with special focus on managing of conflict of interest, measures aimed at curbing corruption in public procurement, corporate ethics, whistleblower protection, forensic accounting, and mutual legal assistance.

This book identifies concrete priority measures that stakeholders— including governments, donor agencies, civil society, and private sector organizations involved in aid delivery and reconstruction work—can take to prevent and curb corruption in service delivery and procurement related to tsunami relief.

With an overview on governance issues, strengths, and weaknesses in ADB’s Pacific developing member countries, this book aims to improve understanding of the governance environment— in individual countries and in the entire region—and as the basis for a more focused policy dialogue with governments on areas where development partners can help make development assistance more effective.