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E-governance and Corruption-developments and Issues in Ethiopia

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This paper reports the results of a survey of 400 respondents in Ethiopia about factors generating corruption and the potential of e-Governance to mitigate corruption. It is suggested that e-Governance can help not only in weeding out corruption but also in the establishment of sounder government citizen relationships in Ethiopia. While e-Governance cannot cure all the structural factors that breed corruption in the society, strategic implementation of e-Governance can help improve the critical variable in combating corruption-government citizen relationships. It is argued that while e-Governance initiatives can make important contributions to improving public services they can best do so by helping improve overall relationships between governments and citizens.

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  1. University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

    R. D. Pathak & Gurmeet Singh

  2. Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

    Rakesh Belwal

  3. 125 Everett Crescent, Barongarook West, 3249, Victoria, Australia

    R. F. I. Smith

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Pathak, R.D., Singh, G., Belwal, R. et al. E-governance and Corruption-developments and Issues in Ethiopia. Public Organiz Rev 7, 195–208 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-007-0031-6

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