Tag Archives | World Bank

Anti-money laundering: In pursuit of the hidden owners

By on 21 January 2013 in Anti-corruption movement, Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

This text was crossposted from Transparency Internarional EU’s blog. The author is Neil Clark. On 10 January, advocates from the Transparency International EU Office attended a presentation unveiling the results of Project BOWNET. Carried out with financial support from the Prevention of and Fight against Crime Programme of the European Union, the project aimed at understanding the feasibility of developing an intelligent system able [...]

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Does open data make development more accountable? The case of Colombia

By on 13 December 2012 in Aid, Americas

Mapping different data sets from a country – with bright colours and click-through functions – may be a visual delight for developers and the tech-savvy, but what do these maps offer those crafting public policies? After all, the point of open data is to make more accountable and effective decision-making – whether it is about [...]

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TI Summer School kick-off: Watch a lecture by Daniel Kaufmann live

By on 9 July 2012 in Events

Transparency International Lithuania invites you to follow the live stream of a public lecture by Mr. Daniel Kaufmann, senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution (USA), former head of the World Bank Institute, on 09 July, Monday. The lecture “Revisiting Corruption: A Governance Framework” will open the third Transparency International [...]

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Truth or consequences? The problem with settlements and the World Bank’s debarment of Alstom units

By on 25 April 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Private sector

While the year-long allegations of misconduct against the Alstom Group (ALO) have led to some significant consequences for the company – US$ 9.5 million worth of them – a lot of questions about what happened remain. At the end of February, the World Bank decided to debar two Alstom subsidiaries for three years and agreed [...]

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As the world debates aid, the US puts its aid money out into the public

By on 30 November 2011 in Aid

While a new deal on climate change is being debated in South Africa, another event in South Korea is trying to set a new course to make aid more effective. Craig Fagan, Senior Policy Coordinator at Transparency International, reports from the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness. Part of this new agenda is making [...]

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Are Aid Donors Walking their Own Talk?

By on 15 November 2011 in Aid, Poverty and development

Craig Fagan, Senior Policy Coordinator at Transparency International, is taking the measuring stick to aid transparency A new study on donor transparency shows that many aid agencies are not putting into practice the levels of disclosure that they typically demand from the governments which receive their money. Produced by Publish What You Fund, the global [...]

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How Can We Stop the Corrupt from Gaming the System? More Transparency

By on 24 October 2011 in Measurement and Research, Private sector

Emile van der Does de Willebois, Senior Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank, writes about a new report on the ever-more sophisticated methods used to hide bribes, stolen assets and other criminal proceeds from the World Bank’s Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative. It’s easy to set up a company.  If I want to start a [...]

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Don’t miss the boat on financial reforms

By on 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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On the Spot: TI Chair Huguette Labelle in East Africa

By on 12 March 2009 in Africa and Middle East, Poverty and development

I’ve been to Africa many times. I’ve visited cities and huts, met with heads of state and shared meals with local communities, but this was a special trip. It was the first time since being elected to head of our international anti-corruption movement that I am travelling to the region. With this in mind, I [...]

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