tailieunhanh - The cycle of transparency, accountability, corruption, and administrative performance: Evidence from Vietnam

The cycle of transparency, accountability, corruption, and administrative performance: Evidence from Vietnam. This paper investigates the correlation amongst transparency, accountability, corruption, and public administration performance in Vietnam using data from the Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index survey in 2012. | Journal of Economics and Development, , , December 2014, pp. 32-48 ISSN 1859 0020 The Cycle of Transparency, Accountability, Corruption, andAdministrative Performance: Evidence from Vietnam Tran Thi Bich National Economics University, Vietnam Email: bichtt@ Abstract This paper investigates the correlation amongst transparency, accountability, corruption, and public administration performance in Vietnam using data from the Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index survey in 2012. The Generalised Canonical Analysis is applied to evaluate the meaning of the ‘Don’t Know’ answer which often exists in response to questions on perception of corruption. The results reveal that ‘Don’t Know’ implies corruption. The paper then, shows that a high level of transparency is accompanied with a low level of perception of corruption while impacts of accountability on corruption are mixed. Furthermore, corruption is a critical factor that deteriorates the administration performance whereas transparency and accountability are ineffective in being translated into the quality of administrative services. The results raise the need to closely examine the de-facto forms of transparency and accountability as well as the political will in the fight against corruption to improve the quality of public administrative services in Vietnam. Keywords: Governance; public administration performance; correspondence analysis; canonical correlation analysis. Journal of Economics and Development 32 corruption; multiple Vol. 16, , December 2014 1. Introduction ruption. Moreover, the effects of transparency, accountability, and corruption on the quality of public administrative services are not well understood. In western societies, transparency, accountability, and integrity are rooted in the government framework that ensures equal access to high quality public services. Contrarily, in many developing countries, citizens continue to .

• Quản lý Nhà nước
• The cycle of transparency
• accountability corruption
• Administrative performance
• Evidence from Vietnam
• The correlation amongst transparency