In the News

• Read Foreign Policy magazine's profile of the Global Integrity Report: 2007 in its May/June 2008 issue

• Listen to Managing Director Nathaniel Heller discuss the Global Integrity Report: 2008 with radio legend Bob Edwards.

• Read Managing Director Nathaniel Heller's letter to the editor in the Boston Globe on the debate in the U.S. Congress over funding levels for the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

• Listen to Managing Director Nathaniel Heller on National Public Radio's All Things Considered discuss the governance challenges facing President Bush in Africa prior to his February 2008 trip to the continent. Or read the Associated Press' story here.

• Read, listen, and watch some of the media coverage of the Global Integrity Report: 2007
  • Watch Managing Director Nathaniel Heller on Bloomberg television discussing the key findings from the Global Integrity Report: 2007.
  • Read and listen to Managing Director Nathaniel Heller's presentation of the Global Integrity Report: 2007 at the Brookings Institution
  • Bloomberg news service
  • Read IFEX's summary of the Global Integrity Report: 2007.
  • Listen to Managing Director Nathaniel Heller on WAMU's The Kojo Nambdi Show.
  • The Wall Street Journal's economics blog.
  • Romania Libera, Romania's leading daily newspaper
  • The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
  • The Canadian government's press release in response to Canada's 2007 Global Integrity assessment.
  • The National Post (Canada)
  • Clarin (Argentina)
  • Inquirer (Philippines)
  • Voice of America (two stories, with audio, here and here)
  • AFP (in The Nation, Pakistan)
  • The New Nation (Bangladesh)
  • The Post (Cameroon)

• Global Integrity's findings in Mozambique provide context to the new Mo Ibrahim Prize for African leadership in The Telegraph (London).

• The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) designates the Global Integrity Index as an official source of supplementary information for selecting countries eligible for MCC funding.

• Global Integrity comments in Canada's Globe & Mail on a new lawsuit in Indonesia brought against former President Suharto to recover stolen assets.

• Read how Global Integrity's reporting about corruption in Sierra Leone reinforces how poor governance can undermine democractic development.

• The Council on Foreign Relations picks up on the Christian Science Monitor's use of the 2006 Global Integrity Report to put the Mexican war on drugs into context.

• Read how Global Integrity is described as one of a select group of, "Independent civil society organizations [making] a variety of noteworthy contributions to the monitoring of the quality of checks and balances institutions..." in the World Bank's April 2007 Global Monitoring Report tracking progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (Chapter 1, page 53).

• The International Herald Tribune reminds foreign investors that serious risks remain to investing in Vietnam, according to Global Integrity's 2006 assessment of the country.

• Read how Global Integrity's 2006 assessment of the Philippines is contributing to a renewed debate over the country's progress in the fight against corruption:
  • Manila Standard Today
  • The Philippine Star

• Managing Director Nathaniel Heller presented Global Integrity's methodology at an Economic Reform Roundtable hosted by the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) on March 1, 2007. (Link contains video as well as PowerPoint slides.)

• Listen to and read Marianne Camerer's interview with Voice of America on South Africa's fight against corruption

• Read, listen, and watch media coverage of our 2006 Global Integrity Report:
  • Watch Managing Director Nathaniel Heller's presentation to the World Bank on the 2006 Global Integrity Report

  • Read Managing Director Nathaniel Heller's op-ed, "The Curse of Corruption," in the San Diego Union Tribune

  • The Christian Science Monitor analyzed Global Integrity's 2006 assessment for Mexico in the context of President Calderon's war on drugs.

  • Bloomberg news service

  • Bloomberg Television (requires Windows Media Player):
    January 10, 2007
    January 11, 2007

  • Listen to an interview with Global Integrity's Managing Director Nathaniel Heller on Voice of America's "Talk with America"

  • Read about Global Integrity's 2006 country assessments in the Development Gateway Foundation's dgCommunities web portal

  • Managing Director Nathaniel Heller was interviewed on January 23rd by The Conversation with Ross Reynolds on National Public Radio affiliate KUOW (94.9 FM) Seattle.

  • KPCC Los Angeles, National Public Radio (requires Real Audio Player):

    Global Integrity Managing Director Nathaniel Heller was interviewed by Larry Mantle on AirTalk (89.3 KPCC-FM), on January 10, 2007. You can listen to the audio of the interview on the KPCC Web site: www.kpcc.org

  • Radio Free Europe, Romanian Service (requires Real Audio Player)

  • The 2006 Global Integrity Report was also covered by:
    • Business World, the Philippines' leading business daily
    • The Daily Times (Nigeria)
    • EthicsWorld
    • The Messenger (Georgia)
    • Today (Azerbaijan; in Russian)
    • Proceso, Mexico's leading political magazine (in Spanish; requires subscription)
    • Gazeta Mercantil, dubbed "the Wall Street Journal of Brazil."
    • The Citizen, one of Tanzania's leading English dailies
    • The News International (Pakistan)
    • The Manila Bulletin Online
    • Romania Libera (leading daily Romanian newspaper)
    • Hotnews.ro (Romanian news summaries)
      (in Romanian — in English)
    • The Philippine Star
    • Yemen Observer
    • Al Neda'a (Yemen; in Arabic)