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G8 short on accountability when it comes to aid

7 June 2011 in Accountability, G20, Poverty and development

By Craig Fagan, Senior Policy Coordinator at Transparency International. The recent meetings in Deauville, France , which brought together the world’s eight leading industrialised (G8), did not score well when it comes to accountability.

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G20 action against foreign bribery

24 May 2011 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Financial Markets, G20

Today Transparency International publishes a progress report showing implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention is losing momentum, with no countries having stepped up their enforcement enough to move between active, moderate and low in the last year. The OECD itself is certainly working hard to keep up momentum in the fight against corruption and bribery, […]

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G20: Leading on anti-corruption? The view from civil society

In the fight against corruption, Germany falls behind

16 May 2011 in Anti-corruption movement, Europe and Central Asia, G20

With India’s ratification of UNCAC this month, Germany is one of the last three G20-countries to have not ratified the UN Convention against Corruption, together with Japan and Saudi-Arabia. This is not only embarrassing; it also undermines the credibility of Germany’s efforts to fight corruption at international level, hampering the government’s ability to create a […]

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Oil wealth and revolution

1 March 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Climate Change, Financial Markets, G20, Private sector

Today Transparency International publishes its report on the transparency of oil and gas companies. The report shows that the majority of companies do not reveal payments to governments in countries where the extract oil and gas. A good example for what this means in practice is Libya: A quarter of the country’s economy come from […]

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No impunity for corrupt dictators

16 February 2011 in Asset recovery, Financial Markets, G20

Angela McClellan, Senior Programme Coordinator in TI’s Global Outreach and Campaigns department, coordinates Transparency International’s advocacy work on issues relating to the Group of 20 leading economies. This week the G20 finance ministers are meeting in Paris. She helped organise sending a letter signed by 78 civil society organisations to the G20 finance ministers demanding […]

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Don’t miss the boat on financial reforms

24 June 2010 in Anti-corruption movement, Financial Markets, G20, Politics and government, Private sector

Angela McClellan has worked on G20 issues at Transparency International (TI) for the past two years. She looks forward to this weekend’s meeting in Toronto. When the financial crisis struck hard in 2008, the Group of 20 nations went into high gear to facilitate bail-out packages for banks and companies. Governments coughed up unprecedented sums […]

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Urging G8 to be accountable to their commitments at the upcoming Summit in L’Aquila, Italy

2 July 2009 in Financial Markets, G20, Poverty and development

In their 2008 Accountability Report: Implementation Review of G8 Anti-Corruption Commitments, the G8 noted that corruption is a “corrosive activity” which “poses serious governance challenges and threats to the stability and security of societies, undermines the institutions and values of democracy and jeopardises sustainable development and economic prosperity. Global corruption also impedes efforts to combat […]

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