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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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Curaçao: small island, big challenges?

11 July 2013 in Americas, Politics and government, Whistleblowing

Imagine an island around 250 kilometres north of Venezuela, where you can find idyllic beaches, pastel coloured colonial Dutch architechture, iguana soup and copius amounts of a lurid blue coloured liqueur. This is Curaçao, one of the newest countries in the Americas and home to a population of just 150,000 people. Put in context, that’s […]

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TI Portugal Summer School: A lesson on integrity

25 September 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Private sector

You might have seen Portugal on the news recently. Just over a week ago, an estimated million people (in a country of roughly 10 million) took to the streets protesting new austerity measures announced by Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho. Talk of instability in the governing coalition amid increased public anger damaged the country’s reputation […]

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Corruption in Greece – a crisis of values

3 April 2012 in Europe and Central Asia, Financial Markets

Everyone at the moment is interested in the situation in Greece – the impact of the financial crisis, why it ever happened and the future of the country.  One way to understand it is to talk to the Greeks themselves, of course. We visited Greece for the launch of their important study ‘National Integrity Systems’ […]

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Turks and Caicos Islands: charting a course to a corruption-free future

13 July 2011 in Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement

Today, Transparency International (TI) is publishing a report which evaluates how well the institutions in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) tackle corruption. We call this a National Integrity Systems (NIS) report and it covers everything from government departments and the police to non-governmental organisations and the media. The Turks and Caicos Islands are a […]

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