What did the others say? Observations on the CPI in the media
by Georg Neumann on 8:36 pm on Wednesday, 18. November 2009 | 3 Comments
The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index has been launched. As every year, and maybe more than ever, it stirred a lot of needed debate and attention to the issue of corruption around the world. The attention the index received this year showed that the greed and lack of transparency that were at the heart of the [...]
Corruption Perceptions Index 2009: What does a number mean to you?
by Michael Sidwell on 12:00 pm on Tuesday, 17. November 2009 | 27 Comments
A quick search on the internet for country rankings returns thousands of results. Some tell you that Costa Rica is the happiest country in the world, while others label Germany the most beloved. Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) will also show up. 180 countries ranked according to their perceived level of public sector [...]
What is a ‘conflict of interest’?
by Craig Fagan on 8:08 pm on Monday, 27. July 2009 | 3 Comments
The financial crisis is awash in so many specialised terms that their sheer number seems to rival the amount of bail-out money being doled out to shore up the faltering economy.
One word that is constantly being bounced around, from the Bundestag to the White House, from Wall Street to High Street, is ‘conflict of interest’. [...]
New report: Connecting Corruption and Human Rights
by Craig Fagan on 3:43 pm on Friday, 12. June 2009 | No Comments
Human rights and corruption are not always connected as being integral parts of the same power game of abuses – political, economic, social and cultural. Yet the ties between them have been growing stronger for too long as corruption is increasingly used as a means and ends to human rights violations:
The stealing of oil revenues [...]
Have you paid a bribe last year?
by Georg Neumann on 10:00 am on Wednesday, 3. June 2009 | 5 Comments
Have you paid a bribe in the previous 12 months? This is one of the multitude of questions Transparency International asked more than 73.000 people in 69 countries to address, in the 2009 Global Corruption Barometer, published today, 3 June.
The Barometer is a global public opinion survey that looks at perceptions and experiences of ordinary [...]
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