Disclosure: The World Bank is a funder of Global Integrity. Governance has been one of the key issues that the World Bank has been focusing on and pushing for on recent years. But, how does the World Bank fare itself in this department? In the fall of 2008 Robert Zoellick, the current World Bank president,…
Transparency International (TI) publishes its annual index of perceptions of national levels of corruptions today. Here is the official TI press release, and discussion on TI’s Space for Transparency blog. As has become tradition, newspapers throughout the world are quick to point out how Country X has improved (or dropped) in the 2009 CPI ranking…
We don’t enjoy being the skunks at the garden party, but we can’t help but feel that today’s announcement of a new self-monitoring mechanism for signatories to the UN Convention Against Corruption is little more than an expansion of bureaucratic turf with virtually zero potential for changing lives on the ground. To quote the UN…
Each year Global Integrity published a series of essays on the practice of corruption as viewed from the bottom up. The stories are written by local journalists worldwide, one essay per country. The Corruption Notebooks is intended as a counterpoint to the heavy econometrics focus typical to the governance field (see today’s announcement of the…
Disclosure: Legatum is a funder of Global Integrity. On Monday, the Legatum Institute is hosting an international event on the future of philanthropy. The day’s panels are targeted at youth and how the rising generation can take advantage of current political, social and technological platforms to encourage philanthropy world-wide. Global Integrity will be keeping tabs…
Please join us on November 16 at the National Endowment for Democracy, where Global Integrity’s managing director, Nathaniel Heller, will present the Latin America Local Governance Toolkit. After months of collaboration and data collection with our local partners in Argentina, Ecuador and Peru, Global Integrity proudly released this first-of-its-kind assessment in September. See below for…