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What the Corruption Perceptions Index means in different languages

29 November 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, Miscellaneous

We will publish the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index next Wednesday 5 December. Behind the scores are many different kinds of public sector corruption, all with their own impact on daily life. Our evidence is language. Every language has its own particular expression for abuse of power. Here are a few. In English, we refer to […]

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What is a ‘conflict of interest’?

27 July 2009 in Anti-corruption movement, Financial Markets, Measurement and Research, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Private sector

The financial crisis is awash in so many specialised terms that their sheer number seems to rival the amount of bail-out money being doled out to shore up the faltering economy. One word that is constantly being bounced around, from the Bundestag to the White House, from Wall Street to High Street, is ‘conflict of […]

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