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Report On The Tanzanian Public Accounts Committee In Comparative Perspective, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo May 2014

Report On The Tanzanian Public Accounts Committee In Comparative Perspective, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

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The purpose of the present policy brief is to compare and contrast the organization and the activity but also the working practices and the functioning of the Tanzanian PAC with that of the Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from the East African region. The evidence presented here shows that Tanzania’s PAC is line with best practices at the global level. Specifically, the PAC is well above the regional average in terms of several organizational features, and that, most importantly is the most active PAC in the region.


Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern And Southern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

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This article provides the first and most comprehensive analysis of Public Accounts Committees (PACs) from Eastern and Southern Africa building on the work of McGee, Jacobs, Stapenhurst, and Staddon. By analyzing an original set of data, this article shows that PACs in these two regions are bigger, have more staff members, and are more likely to be chaired by opposition Members of Parliament than they have in other countries and regions. Furthermore, the data show that Eastern and Southern African PACs are more active than their counterparts elsewhere. However, lack of political will and limits to the range of powers …


Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo Mar 2014

Public Accounts Committees In Eastern Africa. A Comparative Analysis, Riccardo Pelizzo, Abel Kinyondo

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The paper presents a comparative analysis of the organization, the powers, the functioning of public accounts committees in Eastern Africa. The paper highlights the exceptionalism Eastern African PACs. The paper in fact discovers and reports an inverse relationship between the amount of activities performed and the range of powers with which Eastern African PACs are endowed


Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Tanzania, Riccardo Pelizzo

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the report analyzes the organization, the powers, the functioning and the activities performed by the public accounts committee from Tanzania


Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

Report On The Public Accounts Committee In Uganda, Riccardo Pelizzo

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the report analyzes the structural characteristics, the powers, the organization, the functioning and the activities of the PAC from Uganda


The Role Of Parliament In Curbing Corruption, Riccardo Pelizzo Mar 2014

The Role Of Parliament In Curbing Corruption, Riccardo Pelizzo

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this note discussed the role that parliaments can play in the fight against corruption


I Costi Della Corruzione, Riccardo Pelizzo Feb 2014

I Costi Della Corruzione, Riccardo Pelizzo

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