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Giving people a voice: lessons from measuring corruption

31 March 2016 in Measurement and Research, Poverty and development

As the world embarks on the ambitious global development agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it is important to have accurate measures of progress, or even lack of progress. Otherwise the goals themselves are at risk of becoming illegitimate. To track the goals, we need to have meaningful indicators that reflect what is […]

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Sub-Saharan Africa: Achieving ‘the Africa we want’ starts with the rule of law

27 January 2016 in Africa and Middle East

En français View the 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index results Sub-Saharan Africa faced a myriad of threats in 2015, from the Ebola epidemic to rising terrorism. Again and again we saw corruption exacerbate the causes of crises, and undermine the response. This year’s index presents a worrying picture – with 40 of 46 countries showing a […]

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New milestone in fight against global corruption

28 September 2015 in Accountability, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Climate Change, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, Politics and government, Poverty and development

On 25 September 2015, the world’s leaders assembled at the UN in New York and made a historic statement in approving 17 key objectives to focus actions across the globe to bring the core strengths of our civilisation to its real potential. The UN General Assembly adopted new global goals, the “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” […]

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Ending corruption, ending poverty – how will the SDGs measure up?

24 September 2015 in Accountability, Aid, Civil society, Climate Change, Cost of Corruption, Human rights

This week the United Nations will agree on 17 sustainable development goals. Goal 16 makes the case that fighting corruption is at the heart of delivering a better world. We have argued this case for many years and are beginning to amass the data to prove this. That’s why it is so important that in […]

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Following the money: why transparent development finance matters

22 April 2015 in Aid, Civil society, Poverty and development

Different numbers have been floated around for what it would cost globally to end poverty, stop climate change and make sure no one goes hungry. These numbers add up into trillions of dollars. How are we going to keep track of the money to make sure it is not wasted, lost to corruption or mismanaged? […]

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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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