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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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Measuring development: why statistics matter

16 March 2015 in Accountability, Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Education, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development

Co-written by Tom Wheeler, Conflict and Security Advisor for Saferworld Last week in New York the United Nations Statistical Commission met to discuss what indicators it can use to measure the new set of development targets that the UN will adopt in September to follow up on the Millennium Development Goals. This is important because […]

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Illicit Financial Flows from Africa: a complex political problem

11 February 2015 in Africa and Middle East, Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Financial Integrity

Last month African heads of state meeting in Addis Ababa received and endorsed the report of the High Level Panel on Illicit Financial Flows from Africa, which outlined where corrupt money comes from, where it goes and what needs to be done to stop it so that citizens can enjoy the wealth their countries produce. […]

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Can big data solve the world’s problems, including corruption?

7 November 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Technology

Governments, academics and tech gurus over the last couple of years have been transfixed with the prospect that better and bigger data can help us solve the world’s more entrenched problems – including corruption and poverty. The United Nations has also caught on to this trend and yesterday released a report, compiled by experts, which […]

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Why governance matters for development: critics listen up!

25 July 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Aid, Anti-corruption Conventions, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, G20, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water

The framing is simple but the implications are huge: to end poverty, you have to end corruption. Transparency International has been using this argument since it was founded over 20 years ago. There now appears to be a ground swell of people from the countries which donate the most to development, who agree with us. […]

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Three steps to (start) recovering stolen assets

12 June 2014 in Africa and Middle East, Asset recovery, Impunity

It takes a long time and great deal of good will, legal procedures and paper work to return stolen assets to the countries where they belong. In April 2014, Switzerland commenced the return of US$40 million of Tunisian assets linked to the former Zine El Abidine Ben Ali regime, which had been frozen in the […]

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MDGs: end corruption to end poverty

19 December 2013 in Aid, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Health, Human rights, Measurement and Research, Poverty and development, Water

International anti-corruption day may have come and gone, but 9 December also offers the chance to look to where else the fight remains to stop the corrupt in their tracks. Nowhere is this more urgent than in the fight against poverty. “To end poverty, you have to end corruption” is a call to action that […]

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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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Are high bribery rates in poor countries blocking development?

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

New findings from the United Nations show that global development commitments – called the Millennium Development Goals – are off track. Governance and corruption are one of the culprits. Yet whole regions are behind on achieving the targets set for 2015, such as making sure all children are in school and that women get proper […]

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Poverty experts: “we need a transparency revolution”

7 June 2013 in Poverty and development

Fighting corruption and improving governance are undeniably key factors for achieving and sustaining development, globally as well as nationally. Until now, however, corruption and governance often have not been fully integrated into development agendas and efforts, most notably global commitments like the Millennium Development Goals, which were agreed in 2000 and are to be achieved […]

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