Global Integrity’s Suha Ma’ayeh breaks down the history of the mobile communications market in Jordan — and the rich opportunities that were created by privatizing a national telecom with limited public oversight. Call Your Wasta By Suha Philip Ma’ayeh In 2005 Umniah Mobile Communications (UMC) entered the Jordan’s booming telecommunications sector. It became the country’s…
Thanks to our friends at the Center for International Private Enterprise for the plug in their recently published paper, “Changing perspectives: how donors can work with the private sector to reduce corruption.”
The BBC puts a number on corruption in the new Iraq: US$23 billion lost, stolen or missing. As the BBC points out, the total cost of this theft and systemic mismanagement is much higher than the total of dollars leaked away — because much of this money was intended for essential projects, like rebuilding the…
All Africa: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was held by police for the third time in a week while campaigning for the June 27 presidential run-off election. NY Times: Tendai Biti, the secretary general of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, was arrested at Harare airport as he returned to the country from South Africa…
Here in the US the ongoing presidential race is an endless source of speculation and debate, with VP selection now feeding the media churn. The process has been brilliantly skewered by the Daily Show: “That’s not a question, that’s a just bag of words!” While we like to claim the high road, we just can’t…
In the past month, Global Integrity has hosted Dialogue workshops in Tanzania and Uganda, which bring together civil society, government, media and aid donors to chart a course for future local anti-corruption efforts. The conclusions of those workshops are here: Global Integrity Dialogues: TanzaniaGlobal Integrity Dialogues: Uganda