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Impunity or Justice – what will exiled leaders find returning to Haiti?
Marilyn Allien, head of La Fondation Heritage pour Haiti (LFHH), the Transparency International chapter in Haiti, reflects on what the return of former president Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier after 25 years in exile means for Haiti. Truly, we in Haiti are having a very hard time digesting this event and what it means for governance […]
Handing the camera to the people
As part of the Poverty and Corruption in Africa programme, Alfred Bridi supported a training on Participatory Video in Uganda. Here’s what he writes about his experience: As a member of the Poverty and Corruption in Africa programme, I was recently able to join six of our African National Chapters at a training on Participatory […]
The floods affecting millions
Monsoon rains in Pakistan have caused devastating floods that have “killed more than 1,600 people, forcing 2 million from their homes and disrupting the lives of about 14 million people, or 8% of the population,” reports the Guardian. According to The Times, “most flood victims…say they were given no warnings and no assistance by the […]
Transparency: A Key to Jumpstart MDG Progress
Time is not on the side of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a set of development promises made by world leaders in 2000 on everything from education to the environment. There are only another five years left to meet the ambitious targets, which include halving the number of people living on less than US$ 1 […]
The very questionable case for good corruption
François Valérian, the head of private sector programmes at Transparency International has written a post for the blog of our colleagues at the Task Force for Financial Integrity and Economic Development. Here’s what he writes: “A Wall Street Journal article and a BBC program have recently discussed the potential merits of corruption. This seemingly provocative […]
Documenting corruption: Top 5 documentaries
On Monday, I’ve asked our twitter followers about documentaries from the last two years that are loosely related to corruption and got some really good suggestions already. I am looking forward to watching them! The top one’s according to you I would like to share here, in no particular order. Living with corruption, Sorious Samura. […]
Why the MDG action plan needs an anti-corruption agenda
The word anti-corruption appears nowhere in the draft declaration ahead of the September MDG Review Summit to kick start action on the Millennium Development Goals. Why this should change. In 2000 the United Nations set a 15-year time line – the Millennium Development Goals – to tackle some of the world’s biggest development problems from […]
Non-cash payment solutions to avoid corruption
Sometimes it’s the easy solutions that could turn out to be effective in reducing bribery and corruption. Take one of the most common forms of corruption: bribing the police (as found in the Transparency International’s 2009 Global Corruption Barometer, the police is the institution people are most likely to bribe. Almost a quarter of people […]
A side effect of corruption in Bangladesh
Since my last post on TI India’s poverty and corruption event , I’ve had the chance to sit down with Iftekhar Zaman, TI Bangladesh’s Executive Director, to hear about how corruption in his country can put such basic public services, as education and health, out of reach for many people.
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