COVID-19 Impacts Cross Border Traders in East Africa
GI ACE researchers Jacqueline Klopp, Alissa Krueger, and Melissa Trimble highlight the implications of COVID-19 on small scale cross-border trading in Kenya and Uganda.
Bribery, gift-giving and social norms: understanding corruption in the Tanzanian health sector
GI ACE researcher Claudia Baez Camargo investigates the social norm of gift-giving in the Tanzanian health sector.
Making records open does not always make them useful
GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses the issue of increasing the transparency of beneficial ownership, with Nigeria as a prime example.
What we have learnt from the UK’s unexplained Wealth Order legal cases
GI ACE researcher Tom Mayne explores the consequences of recent Unexplained Wealth Order cases in the UK
The flipside of corruption: State comparisons in India using public service delivery measures
GI-ACE researcher Amrita Dhillon explores compositie indicators across Indian states and what insights might exist for greater service delivery and curbing corruption.
India’s federal procurement data infrastructure
In a new report Liz David-Barrett, Mihaly Fazekas, Agnes Czibik, Bence Toth, and Isabelle Adam make observations and offer recommendations around their experience trying to gather procurement data in India.
Is positive recognition an incentive to fight corruption?
Highlights from an ethnographic study in revenue-sharing projects in Bwindi National Park–Uganda One reason that corruption is difficult to address is because it manifests differently depending on social expectations in…
Informal practices and informal (governing) networks
How might knowledge about the centrality of informal social networks be used to inform the design of innovative anti-corruption approaches?
Barriers for small-scale traders in Kenya: Exploring women’s challenges on International Women’s Day
GI-ACE researchers explore the multitude of ways traders interpret bribery on East African borders. Especially for small-scale traders with perishable goods, the cost and time involved drive traders to seek out shortcuts.