TY - BOOK AU - FERRANTI David De TI - How to improve governance: a new framework for analysis and action SN - 9780815702832 (pbk.) : PY - 2009/// CY - Washington DC PB - Brookings Institution Press, KW - GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY KW - POLITICAL CORRUPTION KW - GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY KW - GOVERNANCE N2 - Do transparency, accountability, governance, and corruption matter? This book sets out to demonstrate that they do matter and to develop an analytical framework to assess the relative importance and feasibility of improvement measures. Appendices provide case studies of transparency and accountability in the budget process of five countries (Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Mexico, Thailand) ER -