Reports
April 30th, 2011
The Global Corruption Report: Climate Change sets out practical guidelines to prevent corruption undermining climate change measures and calls on governments, international organisations, businesses and civil society to ensure good governance in climate policy. “The urgent need to respond to climate change needs to be enhanced by transparency and accountability. Oversight must be built into all climate-related
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March 12th, 2011
The report explains illicit capital flight, how it happens, its magnitude and its consequences for development, measures taken so far and measures needed to end it. It also includes a specific chapter on capital flight from Africa and presents illustrative case studies from Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania. These are written by Attiya Waris from Tax
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October 26th, 2010
With governments committing huge sums to tackle the world’s most pressing problems, from the instability of financial markets to climate change and poverty, corruption remains an obstacle to achieving much needed progress, according to Transparency International’s 2010 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a measure of domestic, public sector corruption released October 2010. The 2010 CPI shows
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October 11th, 2010
A new report from Global Witness, a coordinating committee member of the Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development, exposes British banks for facilitating corruption in Nigeria LONDON (Global Witness)—British high street banks have accepted millions of pounds in deposits from corrupt Nigerian politicians, raising serious questions about their commitment to tackling financial crime,
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