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What makes big investors blacklist companies: gross corruption

1 February 2016 in Financial Integrity

  After Norway’s massive public pension fund recently decided to blacklist the Chinese telecoms equipment company ZTE for “gross corruption”, anti-corruption activists are keen to know why they did this and who is next. Investors and regulators who, are sensitive about corruption, want to know more about how corruption impacts companies. They also want to […]

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Northern shadows: Norway doesn’t always practise what it preaches

4 February 2015 in Anti-corruption Conventions, Europe and Central Asia, Oil and gas, Private sector

Norway regularly features near the top of rankings for quality of governance, health and education, including Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index. In 2014 it was ranked by this index as the fifth cleanest country in the world, out of 175 countries. It is one of the few resource-rich countries that have managed to escape the resource curse, […]

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“Perspectives from the North” – corruption lessons for the Czech Republic

14 October 2014 in Anti-corruption movement, Europe and Central Asia, Events, Measurement and Research, Politics and government, Private sector

Why are Nordic countries seen as having lower levels of public sector corruption than other European countries? What experiences do these countries have in fighting corruption, and what can weaker performing countries like the Czech Republic learn? It was questions like these that our recent conference “Corruption-free society: Perspectives from the North” set out to […]

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Corruption Perceptions Index 2012: Life at the top

29 November 2012 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, Politics and government

Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, coming out on Wednesday, once again ranks the Nordic countries among the “most clean” when it comes to public sector corruption. As discussed in a previous post, such good results stem from political will, open government and robust legislation and mechanisms for holding politicians and civil servants to account. […]

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Corruption in Europe: Taking the pulse, prescribing reform

27 June 2011 in Accountability, Europe and Central Asia, European Union, Measurement and Research

Paul Zoubkov and Helen Turek talk about Transparency International’s Europe wide initiative to improve national anti-corruption systems. Good governance, accountability and rule of law are among the key hallmarks of a healthy society, and yet right across Europe, there is a deep sense of frustration that key national institutions and actors are not living up […]

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