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…
Global Integrity welcomes Costa Rican journalist Hazel Feigenblatt to the Commons blog. Hazel is an investigative journalist with La Nacion in Costa Rica who is visiting us in our Washington office, and will be guest blogging with us in addition to her work with La Nacion. Starting in December, she’s be supporting Global Integrity’s local…
Global Integrity presents best practices for governance metrics at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Athens. IACC Athens: A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption from Global Integrity on Vimeo. More on the book A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption.
Disclosure: The World Bank is a funder of Global Integrity. From the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), a new analysis has sharp criticism for the World Bank’s corruption metrics. They find that metrics are proposed “without considerations of the political economy and without clear strategies to win the support of a critical mass of key leaders.”…
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