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Follow the Money: Tracking Public Expenditure in Education

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

This blog post was written by Bernard Gauthier, Professor at the Institute of Applied Economics, HEC Montréal, Canada, with contributions by Apollinaire Mupiganyi, Executive Director of Transparency International Rwanda. One of the most common tools to estimate public corruption is the method known as Public Expenditure Tracking Survey (PETS) pioneered by Ritva Reinikka and Jakob […]

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What stops East Africans reporting corruption?

20 October 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Measurement and Research

Concerning findings in a report released by TI’s East Africa chapters today. People in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda were asked about their experiences with bribery and their responses show that the police is the institution most prone to bribery across all countries (Uganda’s police service tops the list). The prevalence of bribery to […]

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Should banks profit from dictators’ money?

24 August 2011 in Africa and Middle East, Anti-corruption Conventions, Politics and government, Private sector

As Libya prepares for the future, what are financial centres doing to stop the flow of stolen assets from dictators? The following is adapted from a speech made by Transparency International’s vice-chair, Akere Muna, at the UN public service forum in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania.   If corruption, especially money laundering and […]

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