The New York Times reports on the dismissals of many of Iraq’s Inspectors General, one of the few semi-functioning anti-corruption mechanisms in the country. While we can’t go into the details yet publicly, much of this tracks with our forthcoming Global Integrity assessment of Iraq that will be part of the Global Integrity Report: 2008.…
Global Integrity, the Center for Accountability and Transparency in Liberia (CENTAL), and the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) are proud to release the Liberia Local Governance Toolkit, which assesses the existence, effectiveness, and citizen access to key anti-corruption mechanisms at the county level in Liberia. Read the full report here.Read key findings here. The…
If there were ever an opportunity to witness a train wreck in slow-motion, Russia’s current trajectory towards increasing authoritarianism is a case study. The New York Times reports on current efforts to extend the Russian President’s term from four to six years. Meanwhile, the EU has resumed normal relations with Russia after suspending talks in…
What if you ran an international nonprofit and found out everything you had been doing wasn’t enough? In the spring of 2008, Global Integrity wrote a book on the state of the art of corruption and governance measurement tools. What we found was startling: despite hand-wringing over “duplication of efforts” by Western aid donors, stakeholders…
A new book by historian Alfonso W. Quiroz overturns several conventional assumptions about corruption in Peru, most notably that it’s a hidden crime of recent provenance. Corrupt Circles: A History of Unbound Graft in PeruWritten by Alfonso W. QuirozCopub.: Johns Hopkins University Press As Peru prosecutes former president Alberto Fujimori and other alleged participants in…
For the first time, Costa Rica started a trial against a former President, Rafael Angel Calderon, accused of aggravated corruption for supposedly masterminding a plan to obtain economic benefits from a government procurement project. Anyone can witness the trial (if they get there in time to grab one of the 30 seats available to the…