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C. Gooden February, 2003 Can institutional reform effectively deal with the problem of bureaucratic corruption and inefficiency? Public institutions that are weak and underdeveloped contribute to an environment in which corruption and other unethical behavior can thrive.1 During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the word 'audit' began to be used with growing frequency in a wide variety of contexts. New schemes to recognize accountability, such as Citizen's Charters, have been created and existing entities, such as charities, have been subjected to accounting and audit reform. Christopher Hood (1994:17) draws a loose analogy between the extinction of the dinosaurs 60 million years ago and the apparent disappearance of a number of orthodox lines of economic policy in the 1980s. He provides four approaches to explaining these changes in trends especially as it relates to institutional reform in the public sector, and gives general explanation for policy extinction. Reference is made to the shift...

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