Should Officials’ Asset Declarations Be Public? Why I Changed My Mind About...
Many countries have some form of asset declaration requirement for public officials, but there is substantial country-by-country variance as to the actual design of the process. There is especially...
View ArticleBrazilian Supreme Court Justice Orders Investigation of Transparency...
Six days after it reported in its annual survey of corruption perceptions that the fight against corruption in Brazil was losing steam, Transparency International was placed under investigation by...
View ArticleBrazil’s Anticorruption Backsliding
In a recent post I discussed the positive legacy of Brazil’s Car Wash Operation and argued that this operation, for all its missteps, strengthened the country’s legal and institutional framework...
View ArticleECOWAS Must Get Serious About Corruption—or the Coups Will Continue
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was founded in 1975 to foster economic cooperation within West Africa. Over time, ECOWAS’s mission has expanded to include the promotion of...
View ArticleU.S. Justice Department Does What Mongolia’s Government Wouldn’t
GAB readers will remember posts in late 2020 and early 2021 recounting damning evidence implicating Mongolian political kingpin S. Batbold in a massive corruption scheme (here, here, and here)....
View ArticleAfrican Countries and the Corruption Perceptions Index: Don’t Blame the...
Transparency International (TI) released its annual Corruption Perception Index earlier this year. As many readers of this blog are likely aware, the CPI is quite controversial, particularly in...
View ArticleThe Price of Rhetoric: Anticorruption Narratives and Violence Against Doctors...
In China, violence against doctors and other healthcare professionals has become a worrisome trend. Much as Americans have gotten depressingly used to the expression “school shooting,” Chinese...
View ArticleIMF Staff: British Virgin Islands A Haven for Fraudsters, Tax Cheats, Corrupt...
The IMF staff doesn’t put the conclusion to their report on the British Virgin Islands’ antimoney laundering controls as starkly as the headline to this post does. But its February 27, 330-page...
View ArticleAnti-Defamation Laws: Politicians Abuse Them, But Can Anticorruption...
Defamation is a scary word for the anticorruption community. After all, anti-defamation laws are frequently abused to harass, deter, and discredit people who accuse politicians of misconduct. But...
View ArticleToo Nice? Why Canada’s Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA)...
Capping off a series of scandalous events that shook Canadian politics to its foundation, in February 2019, Jody Wilson-Raybould––the country’s then-Justice Minister and Attorney General––resigned...
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