Standing still? What the world’s biggest economies are doing about corruption
Intergovernmental bodies - Transparency International chair Huguette Labelle on the G20’s anti-corruption action plan
Posted 05 Apr 2012
Greece: The cost of a bribe
Surveys - The Greece National Integrity System report finds that several “pillars” of the Greek anti‐corruption system have fundamental flaws, the most significant of which is a crisis of values, typified by broad scale acceptance of and participation in corruption.
Posted 03 Apr 2012
Corporate transparency: old problems and new ideas
Private sector - The 2012 Davos meeting appears to recognise that popular confidence in leaders of politics and business is at a new low, and have set the agenda accordingly. The theme of “new models” is appropriate to a world seeking reform of the global financial system, and stronger relationships between the ...
Posted 27 Jan 2012
South Asia: Tales from those battling corruption everyday
Surveys - South Asians regularly have to pay bribes when dealing with their public institutions, be it to speed up paperwork, avoid problems with authorities such as the police, or simply access basic services.
Posted 22 Dec 2011
Anti-Corruption Day 2011
Miscellaneous - Fighting corruption has been high on the agenda in 2011. People have taken to the streets to demand accountability from their leaders. Additional countries have adopted anti-corruption legislation. More people are coming forward to report corruption.
Posted 09 Dec 2011
Is corruption sexist?
Gender - Corruption is a barrier that results in women having less access to education and healthcare, less economic opportunity, and more of a struggle to get their voices heard.
Posted 08 Dec 2011
Climate finance: Let’s make every dollar count
Climate governance - As policymakers meet in Durban this week to discuss climate change, Transparency International will call on officials to make sure the people managing and spending public finance for climate change will be held accountable – in developed and developing countries.
Posted 30 Nov 2011
Keeping aid on target
Poverty and development - This week the most powerful aid decision-makers from across the world meet at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, South Korea, to discuss the future of how money will be given. What they decide affects the destinies of the millions of people that rely on this help to survive, ...
Posted 28 Nov 2011
Land and corruption - a global concern
Land - In November 2011 the world’s population passed the 7 billion mark, a milestone greeted with understandable trepidation. Where are all these people going to live and what will they eat at a time when climate change is threatening the planet’s scarce resources? The pressure on land has never been ...
Posted 15 Nov 2011
Clamping down on kleptocrats
Asset recovery - President Obiang is one of three African leaders whose assets in France are under investigation, the result of years of activism and a landmark legal decision allowing Transparency International France and Sherpa to start judicial proceedings, a precedent that could be replicated all over the world.
Posted 08 Nov 2011
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