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and security institutions and legislative bodies) and
assessing their effectiveness. In particular, and in respect of
the principles of shared accountability and responsibility,
donors should also become more transparent and
accountable for the limited impact of the significant
resources spent on supporting better political and
economic governance in developing countries.
5.4 Invest in strengthening internal [development
agency] analytical capacity and tools and those of national
stakeholders to better understand the nature of organized
crime and associated impacts.
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Finally, as noted in the Executive Summary, the
development community must invest more heavily in
the development of political economy assessment and
analytical frameworks to understand when to engage
on organized crime-related issues, and w<strong>here</strong> to focus
efforts within these five core areas. The next section
provides deeper insights into how this might be achieved.
It also provides an outline for longer-term research: a
framework developed on the principle of ‘do-no harm’
for analyzing types of relations between organized crime
and political institutions and how they impact on political
arrangements and governance.
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Responding to the Impact of Organized Crime on Developing Countries