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Why do women report corruption less than men?

By on 8 March 2013 in Africa and Middle East, ALAC, ALACs in AFME, People power

As today is International Women’s Day, I looked at the complaints our help centres around the world received last year to see if there is any gender difference in reporting corruption. Unfortunately, the numbers suggest there is a significant difference: in many parts of the world, women are less likely to report an incident of [...]

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What Billions In Illicit And Licit Capital Flight Means For The People Of Zambia

By on 16 December 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Aid, Cost of Corruption, Private sector

A forthcoming report by Global Financial Integrity finds that Zambia lost US$8.8 billion in illicit financial outflows from 2001-2010

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Pushing Forward G8′s Anti-Corruption Agenda

By on 15 May 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Poverty and development

In India more than 200 million people live without secure access to food, the most of any county in the world, the Wall Street Journal reported last month. As the report argued, this is not because India lacks the resources to provide for its population. On the contrary, India’s domestic food production would be more [...]

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Our time to be heard: Liberian Youth and the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

By on 13 December 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Education, People power, Young people

Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , who was recently jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, has been re-elected as President of Liberia and has pledged to fight corruption during her second term. The challenge, says Annette Jaitner, Senior Programme Coordinator in Transparency International’s Africa and Middle East Department, is making sure that young people are [...]

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Mobile ALACs in Africa: Giving citizens from rural areas a voice

By on 6 December 2011 in Africa and Middle East, ALAC, ALACs in AFME

Laura Granado, Programme Coordinator in the Middle East and Africa Department, writes on the work of mobile Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) in Africa, bringing free legal advice to rural populations. One of the main objectives of Advocacy and Legal Advice Centres (ALACs) is to empower the victims and witnesses of acts of corruption [...]

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2011: A call to action

By on 30 November 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Measurement and Research

With all but four Sub-Saharan African countries coming in on the lower half of the 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index, it’s easy to focus on the bad news. But Chantal Uwimana, Regional Director for Africa and the Middle East says the results can be a motivation for governments and citizens alike to tackle corruption, with a [...]

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Bribe Payers Index 2011: When China goes shopping abroad

By on 31 October 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Private sector

On Wednesday 2 November Transparency International will publish the Bribe Payers Index 2011, which ranks the perceived propensity of 28 leading export countries and 19 business sectors to bribe abroad. Written by Deborah Brautigam, Professor of International Development at the American University, Washington DC, for Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Report, this excerpted article looks [...]

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What stops East Africans reporting corruption?

By on 20 October 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Measurement and Research

Concerning findings in a report released by TI’s East Africa chapters today. People in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda were asked about their experiences with bribery and their responses show that the police is the institution most prone to bribery across all countries (Uganda’s police service tops the list). The prevalence of bribery to [...]

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Should banks profit from dictators’ money?

By on 24 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption Conventions, Politics and government, Private sector

As Libya prepares for the future, what are financial centres doing to stop the flow of stolen assets from dictators? The following is adapted from a speech made by Transparency International’s vice-chair, Akere Muna, at the UN public service forum in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.   If corruption, especially money laundering and [...]

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Water and profits in Nairobi’s poorest neighbourhoods

By on 27 April 2011 in Africa and Middle East, TISDA, Water

It is difficult to believe that someone living on less than a dollar day in a Nairobi slum can pay more for the use of water than their counterparts living in the city’s affluent residential areas. A worrying trend has emerged from the Transparency and Integrity in Service Delivery in Africa (TISDA) programme water sector [...]

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