Financial Transparency Coalition

Based on expert opinion, the Corruption Perceptions Index measures the perceived levels of public sector corruption worldwide. 2015 showed that people working together can succeed in fighting corruption. Although corruption is still rife globally, more countries improved their scores in 2015 than declined. Some countries have improved in recent years – Greece, Senegal and the UK are

The report is based on a Mentoring Workshop organised by CBGA and Financial Transparency Coalition, in New Delhi in December 2014. The purpose of the report is to discuss some of the important concepts and issues related to illicit financial flows (IFFs) and to present a few existing research methodologies on these issues, which could

Illicit financial flows from developing and emerging economies surged to US$1.1 trillion in 2013, according to a study released Wednesday by Global Financial Integrity (GFI), a Washington, DC-based research and advisory organization. Authored by GFI Chief Economist Dev Kar and GFI Junior Economist Joseph Spanjers, the report pegs cumulative illicit outflows from developing economies at

This December 2015 report from Global Financial Integrity, “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2004-2013,” finds that developing and emerging economies lost US$7.8 trillion in illicit financial flows from 2004 through 2013, with illicit outflows increasing at an average rate of 6.5 percent per year—nearly twice as fast as global GDP.