Disclosure: The World Bank is a funder of Global Integrity. Details below post. Last week, World Bank President Robert Zoellick gave a major policy address suggesting the World Bank embrace more political (as opposed to strictly economic) reforms in countries in order to stimulate governance reforms and, ultimately, encourage poverty reduction and growth. This past…
I was in Bratislava earlier this month helping to organize a Dialogue workshop to discuss and debate the results of our first-ever national assessment of the Slovak Republic. The data and reporting we published for Slovakia in 2009 painted a mixed picture. As we reported: Slovakia poses a conundrum. Although the former communist country is…
A Global Integrity reporter in Cairo, Mervat Diab, shares the views of the protestors about the Obama administration’s handling of the crisis. By Mervat DiabEgyptian lawyer Issam Sultan has formally asked the prosecutor’s office to investigate the use of three US embassy vans in the crackdown that took place late last month against Egyptian protesters.…
With all of the craziness coming out of Egypt and Tunisia in the past few weeks, a recurring theme in much of the media coverage (at least in the West) has been that “the people” are fed up with corruption, and that frustration is fueling much of the outrage behind the protests. Ben Ali’s exile…
The first message began like dystopian science fiction: “We have a short time on the net. Therefore I am writing to you to pass our pleas…” Field reports from Cairo, in the form of messages via our Indaba fieldwork platform to Hazel Feigenblatt, our Media Projects Director, working with the Global Integrity Report team. The…
Global Integrity is pleased to announce the release of our first Local Integrity Initiative pilot project in the health and education sectors, an exercise we collaborated on last year with the World Bank’s Human Development anchor and the Center for Research and Policymaking (CRPM) in Macedonia. Our fieldwork attempted to answer a relatively simple but…