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Fighting corruption above the Arctic Circle

8 January 2015 in Civil society, Europe and Central Asia, Miscellaneous, Politics and government

Greenland is a semi-autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark that is half the size of Europe with a population of just 57,000. With the prospect of a fast-developing oil and mining industry, this small community needs to recognise the corruption challenges it will be facing in 2015. Transparency International Greenland’s chair, Anita Hoffer sat […]

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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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Five reasons corruption is getting worse in China

3 December 2014 in Asia Pacific, People power, Politics and government

The big story in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2014 is that corruption seems to be getting worse in China, despite a two-year anti-corruption campaign.

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Sub-Saharan Africa: corruption still hurts daily lives

3 December 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Human rights, Impunity, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector

Once again, the Corruption Perceptions Index results are not fundamentally different from previous years: the majority of African countries still have a score of less than 50 per cent, which in our view depicts a situation of endemic corruption. In a continent with high level of economic growth rates (compared to many parts of the […]

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Europe, Central Asia and the state of corruption in 2014: the gold standard?

3 December 2014 in Accountability, Civil society, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Impunity, Lobbying, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government

Perhaps it should come as no surprise that out of 175 countries in the 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index, the once great economic hope of many – Turkey – suffered one of the biggest drops in score (down five points to 45 out of 100 on a scale where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 very […]

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Middle East and North Africa: a region in turmoil

3 December 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Aid, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Defence and Security, Human rights, Impunity, Oil and gas, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector, Whistleblowing

Three out of the bottom 10 countries on Transparency International’s 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index are from the Middle East and North Africa. Two of these three are in the midst of gruesome civil wars where lives are being lost daily. Iraq and Libya tell a story of a region in turmoil plagued with geopolitical insecurity, […]

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Corruption in the Americas: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

3 December 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Human rights, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector, Sport, Whistleblowing

The 2014 Corruption Perceptions Index does not show significant movement in the scores of the countries in the Americas. For the more cynical among us, this is a good sign as there is always the possibility of worsening. But the reality is that stagnation is not good news. Each year that passes without things improving, […]

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