Cartelisation: blue collar corruption

by admin on 9:00 am on Thursday, 24. September 2009 | 3 Comments

The views and opinions expressed in this post are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Transparency International.
“Our competitors are our friends, our customers are the enemy” is an actual statement made by an executive of Archer Daniel Midland, in the famous case of the lysine (a feed additive) cartel, [...]

2009 Global Corruption Report: Corruption and the Private Sector

by Georg Neumann on 4:20 pm on Wednesday, 23. September 2009 | 8 Comments

When asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, a 6-year old girl said she wanted to be a corrupt official, because they have so many things. After recovering from the shock of the little girl’s answer, the next question that arises is: how is it that these officials can accumulate so many [...]

G8: Time to back up public commitments

by Angela McClellan on 6:17 pm on Wednesday, 8. July 2009 | No Comments

Transparency International welcomes the 12 principles for a strong, fair and clean economy on the table in l’Aquila as long as they include strong monitoring mechanisms for effective implementation
On the OECD 12 principles for a strong, fair and clean economy, we would urge G-8 leaders to put into practice the effective monitoring of the implementation [...]

Fighting corruption in Europe and Central Asia: issues, approaches, lessons, questions

by Georg Neumann on 12:48 pm on Tuesday, 16. June 2009 | No Comments

Emerging issues, new tools and approaches, strategies and lessons learnt in the fight against corruption will be discussed over the couple of next days as part of the Europe and Central Asia Meeting taking place from 15-17 June in the FYR of Macedonia. The meeting, organised by Transparency International’s chapter Transparency Zero-Corruption and the national [...]