Financial Transparency Coalition

This manual helps interested parties to understand and address corruption risks associated with forest carbon accounting – particularly REDD+ – programmes and strategies at the national level. Users will learn how to identify corruption risks and instruments to help address these risks within the development of national Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+)

The Greek debt crisis has left many of its citizens on the margins, presenting one of the greatest socio-economic upheavals in the nation’s recent history. With the effects of the crisis endemic and no immediate end in sight, it is important to understand some of the underlying causes of the failure, especially corruption. Petty corruption

Most countries do not reap the full benefits from their wealth in natural resources. One of the major causes is illicit financial flows (IFF), that is, money that ends up benefiting local and foreign elites rather than the general population. Much of this money is generated by corruption, illegal resource exploitation, and tax evasion. There

Washington, October 24, 2011 –Most large-scale corruption cases involve using legal entities to conceal ownership and control of corrupt proceeds, and policymakers should take steps to improve transparency to reduce opportunities for wrongdoing, according to a study released today by the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative of the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs