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Selected media coverage of the State Integrity Investigation:

Global Integrity Executive Director Nathaniel Heller talks about the Open Government Partnership on Gov 2.0 Radio.

The New York Times profiles Global Integrity's Foglamp initiative in a story exploring the growth of hybrid corporate structures in the United States.

President Earnest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone invokes his country's performance in the Global Integrity Report at the opening of Parliament in October 2011.

Fast Company magazine profiles a new technology that leverages Global Integrity and other data to track corruption "hot spots" in countries.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton invokes Global Integrity's findings for the Middle East and North Africa in a speech at the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in April 2011.

The Economist quotes Global Integrity Executive Director Nathaniel Heller on whether single-number country rankings of corruption have reached their zenith.

Selected media coverage of the Global Integrity Report: 2010:

Selected media coverage of the Global Integrity Report: 2009:

  • The Hill (US) reports on the lack of progress on anti-corruption in the United States.
  • The Wall Street Journal (US) reports on China's graduation from the Grand Corruption Watch List.
  • Foreign Policy magazine (US) blogs about the possibility that Global Integrity data have led to arrests in Jordan.
  • The New Indian Express (India) highlights Global Integrity findings for the South Asian nation.
  • TV Rustavi2 (Georgia) reports Georgia's graduation from the Grand Corruption Watch List.
  • B92 (Serbia), one of Serbia's most prominent independent media outlets, focuses on Serbia's graduation from the Grand Corruption Watch List.
  • O Globo (Brazil), a leading daily in Brazil, covers the first Global Integrity assessment of Brazil since 2007.
  • The Daily Nation (Kenya), reports the government's response to Global Integrity's latest assessment for the East African country.
  • The Daily Monitor (Uganda), quotes the country's Ethics Minister responding to Global Integrity's data for Uganda.
  • The Jordan Times (Jordan), the largest English daily in Jordan, reports government feedback on Global Integrity's 2009 data for the country.

 Ha'aretz, Israel's leading daily, uses Global Integrity datato describe the complexities of Egypt's upcoming presidential elections.

GlobalPost talks to Managing Director Nathaniel Heller about the threat that corruption poses to Iraq's developmen

Read how the Associated Press uses Global Integrity data to paint a complex picture of reform efforts in Egypt

Global Integrity's data on U.S. anti-corruption safeguards help explain the money-in-politics challenges facing America, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

Selected media coverage of  the Global Integrity Report: 2008.

Our 2008 Grand Corruption Watch List is the focus of an article and slideshow in Business Week magazine.

Read Global Integrity resesearchers John Ackerman and Irma Sandoval analyzing the Mexican government's anti-corruption efforts in La Jornada (in Spanish) and the Chicago Tribune.

Read citizen journalists in Indiausing the Global Integrity Report: India to add a quick, evidence-based snapshot of governance challenges to a breaking news story.

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 Globeon 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.

Selected media coverage of the Global Integrity Report: 2007:

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) designatesthe Global Integrity Index as an official source of supplementary information for selecting countries eligible for MCC funding.

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

Read how Global Integrity's reporting about corruption in Sierra Leonereinforces 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 Reporttracking 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 Philippinesis 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

Selected media coverage of the Global Integrity Report: 2006: