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Opinion leaders in government and business routinely tout the Internet's power as a force for economic and social development, and programs designed to bridge the digital divide are springing up across the developing world. Many questions remain, however, about the effectiveness of such programs in fostering greater productivity and improving quality of life. Overselling the Web? offers a much needed antidote to the Internet hype touting the promise of new technologies. Drawing on macroeconomic data as well as eye-opening anecdotes, Charles Kenny underscores the trade-offs and constraints inherent in the new communications technology. His work raises serious questions about the advisability of channeling scarce investment funds into the Internet when countries are confronting more basic challenges in the realm of education, health, and infrastructure.

Electronic commerce --- Internet --- World Wide Web --- Information technology --- W3 (World Wide Web) --- Web (World Wide Web) --- World Wide Web (Information retrieval system) --- WWW (World Wide Web) --- Hypertext systems --- Multimedia systems --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- Cybercommerce --- E-business --- E-commerce --- E-tailing --- eBusiness --- eCommerce --- Electronic business --- Internet commerce --- Internet retailing --- Online commerce --- Web retailing --- Commerce --- Information superhighway --- Economic aspects

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Construction governance failures can lead to the construction of the wrong infrastructure, poor quality construction, and excessively high prices for work. There is some evidence from both other sectors and the construction sector itself that improved transparency, especially when combined with oversight, can improve development outcomes through its impact on the quality of governance. This paper reviews that evidence, discusses costs and benefits of greater transparency in particular with regard to the contracting and delivery process in construction, and briefly discusses an initiative to improve governance in public construction - the Construction Sector Transparency Initiative.

Accountability --- Accountability measures --- Banks & Banking Reform --- Bidding --- Bribe --- Bribery --- Bribes --- Civil society --- Collapse --- Collusion --- Corrupt --- Corruption --- Cpi --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Good governance --- Governance --- Governance Indicators --- Initiative --- Integrity --- Investigations --- Media --- National Governance --- Procurement --- Procurements --- Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures --- Public Sector Development --- Transparency --- Transport --- Transport Economics Policy & Planning

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This paper examines what we can say about the extent and impact of corruption in infrastructure in developing countries using existing evidence. It looks at different approaches to estimating the extent of corruption and reports on the results of such studies. It suggests that there is considerable evidence that most existing perceptions measures appear to be very weak proxies for the actual extent of corruption in the infrastructure sector, largely (but inaccurately) measuring petty rather than grand corruption. Existing survey evidence is more reliable, but limited in extent and still subject to sufficient uncertainty that it should not be used as a tool for differentiating countries in terms of access to infrastructure finance or appropriate policy models. The paper discusses evidence for the relative costs of corruption impacts and suggests that a focus on bribe payments as the indicator of the costs of corruption in infrastructure may be misplaced. It draws some conclusions regarding priorities for infrastructure anti-corruption research and activities in projects, in particular regarding disaggregated and actionable indicators of weak governance and corruption.

Anti-Corruption --- Anticorruption --- Bank --- Bribe --- Bribery --- Bribes --- Confidence --- Corrupt --- Corruption --- Corruption and Anticorruption Law --- Corruption Perceptions --- Corruption Perceptions Index --- Corruption Research --- CPI --- Crime and Society --- Governance --- Governance Indicators --- Government --- Government Diagnostic Capacity Building --- Grand Corruption --- Law and Development --- Legal Products --- National Governance --- Petty Corruption --- Policy --- Poverty Monitoring and Analysis --- Poverty Reduction --- Public Sector Corruption and Anticorruption Measures --- Scandals --- Social Accountability --- Social Development --- Transparency --- Transport --- Transport Economics, Policy and Planning