Meanwhile, state are hobbled by their own enterprises and need a radical transparency. Openness is the oxygen of corruption in public procurement, and sanctioned publishing of...
Your data is current up to October 2023, but you want Banks to cease being a passive pipeline and become an active gatekeeper. Multi-layered cross-border payments...
The 1MDB case is a powerful reminder that corruption is not only a national issue but also global strategic and economic challenges as it threatens the...
The government should go beyond ceremonies and publicity. It should place a map of all the commissioned roads in the public domain, identify every project clearly,...
Global frameworks need to be tightened up such that most if not all jurisdictions have similar anti-bribery laws, and far better information sharing; preferably across borders....
Pressuring companies is only part of the answer, but let us push back; civil society, investors, and lawmakers should demand more than corporate PR responses. The...
It is not wrong for anyone to say that what Tinubu is running is a buccaneer economy based on extortion and exploitation. No nation survives this...
This would be terrible enough, of course, yet the greatest danger is not just a lost economic one. It is civic corrosion. Corruption undermines confidence, and...
Real anti-corruption enforcement remains indispensable. Those officials who embezzle, extort, collude with contractors to fix prices and abuse their office abusing it for pecuniary advantage should...
This should accelerate a difficult discussion. Corruption is more than just bad officials taking bribes. It involves transnational systems of transferring public suffering into private profits...