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Malawi: tackling corruption for a development dividend

22 November 2013 in Accountability, Africa and Middle East, Aid, Cost of Corruption, Education, Health, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Malawi is facing a crisis of confidence. Aid donors, whose contributions make up 40 per cent of the government’s budget, have stopped signing cheques following a corruption scandal that has skimmed off US$250 million that was supposed to be used to help the poor. Not surprisingly, many people are asking what went wrong. What they […]

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Are high bribery rates in poor countries blocking development?

9 July 2013 in Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Human rights, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

New findings from the United Nations show that global development commitments – called the Millennium Development Goals – are off track. Governance and corruption are one of the culprits. Yet whole regions are behind on achieving the targets set for 2015, such as making sure all children are in school and that women get proper […]

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African Renaissance comes through the reinforcement of institutions

24 May 2013 in Africa and Middle East, Oil and gas, Politics and government, Poverty and development

The African Union (AU) celebrates its 50th anniversary on 25 May with an extraordinary summit in Addis Ababa, under the theme “Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance”. The AU as it has been known since 2002 is the successor to the Organization of African Unity founded (OAU) on 25 May 1963 when 32 recently independent African countries […]

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