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Secrecy breeds corruption

11 February 2015 in Accountability, Cost of Corruption, Financial Integrity, Private sector

  This week the New York Times is running a series of hard-hitting investigative reports into who is buying luxury apartments in a single skyscraper overlooking Central Park in New York City, called Time Warner Center, and how they are doing it. It has highlighted a dubious bunch of big spenders allegedly enjoying the proceeds […]

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Supporting security and development in the Americas

2 February 2015 in Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Defence and Security, Human rights, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Last week, US vice-president Joe Biden wrote an important article in the New York Times to explain his administration’s plans to channel resources to support security, governance and development in Central America. Biden wrote that in order to sustain economic growth and economic equality in a region plagued by violence, poverty and corruption, you need […]

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Youths from Asia Pacific unite in the fight against corruption

23 January 2015 in Access to information, Accountability, Asia Pacific, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing, Young people

Young people constitute a sizeable portion of the Asian Pacific population and tend to be particularly exposed to bribery and corruption as students, pupils, workers, customers and citizens. But young people can play a pivotal role in the fight against corruption, in Asia Pacific and beyond. While people from the older generation tend to see […]

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Indonesia: doing the right thing

21 January 2015 in Accountability, Asia Pacific, Civil society, People power, Politics and government

Recently elected Indonesian President Joko Widodo passed one of the first tests of his integrity credentials on 16 January when he postposed the inauguration of Commissioner General Budi Gunawan, his candidate to take over as chief of police, pending an investigation into corruption allegations. One of the hallmarks of his campaign that helped him win […]

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No such thing as a cheap lunch

13 January 2015 in Access to information, Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, Health

Investigations and surveys by Transparency International Slovakia show that healthcare procurement is considered corrupt in Slovakia, but over the past years only a handful of cases have been formally investigated and no one has been brought to justice. That is why monitoring procurement in healthcare has become a priority for us and why we decided to […]

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Lives on the line as Serbia battles healthcare corruption

22 December 2014 in Accountability, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Europe and Central Asia, Health, Impunity, Measurement and Research, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector

A number of doctors and a head nurse at a hospital in Nis, Serbia’s third largest city, were arrested last month for allegedly accepting bribes of up to €13,000 and using their networks to secure healthcare jobs for relatives. Such news echoes results from Transparency International’s 2013 Global Corruption Barometer, which revealed that 81 per […]

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Combattre la corruption à Madagascar

16 December 2014 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, ALAC, ALACs in AFME, Civil society, Education, People power, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing

Jusqu’aux élections d’octobre-décembre 2013, dont les résultats ont été confirmés par la Cour Electorale Spéciale en Janvier 2014, Madagascar traversait depuis cinq ans une crise politique, pendant laquelle le gouvernement issu d’un coup d’État se révéla incapable de mettre un terme à la corruption rampante. Le pays a perdu quatre points sur l’Indice de perception […]

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Fighting corruption in Madagascar

16 December 2014 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, ALAC, ALACs in AFME, Civil society, Education, People power, Poverty and development, Whistleblowing

Before this year’s election, political crisis ruled Madagascar for the last five years as a powerless post-coup government failed to halt rampant corruption. The country dropped four points from 32 in 2012 to 28 in 2014 in our Corruption Perceptions Index. In our interview with Florent Andriamahavonjy, Executive Director of Transparency International – Initiative Madagascar […]

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Corruption’s effects on education in Pakistan

16 December 2014 in Accountability, ALAC, Asia Pacific, Cost of Corruption

Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize should remind people that there are more children out of school in Pakistan (5.5 million) than any country in the world except Nigeria. But because of corruption, merely investing in the Pakistani education system is not sufficient; rigorous monitoring and the creation of an accountable system are needed to make […]

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OECD sheds light on transnational corruption

5 December 2014 in Accountability, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, G20, Impunity, Measurement and Research, Politics and government, Private sector

This week, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published a ground-breaking report that dissects the massive and mostly hidden phenomenon of transnational corruption. Looking at more than 400 bribery cases across 41 countries that amounted to US$13.8 million per bribe, the report gives a glimpse inside the shadowy world of corrupt practices by […]

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