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  • About
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    • Research themes
      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in Paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
        • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
        • Testing and Evidencing Compliance with Beneficial Ownership Checks
        • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
        • ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • The Corrupting Effect of Political Connections in Public Procurement through Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making
        • Regulating Cross-Border Trading – East Africa
      • State capture
        • Building Resilience to State Capture
        • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
        • Building Institutional Resilience to Global Illicit Financial Flows as Enablers and Drivers of State Capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
        • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
        • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
        • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
        • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
        • Leveraging Social Audits – India
        • Integrity & Civil Servants – Nepal & Bangladesh
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Author Archives: Tom Shipley

State capture and UNCAC: the Elephant in the Room

GI ACEBy Tom Shipley25/06/2025Leave a comment

Tom Shipley is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Corruption, embedded within the GI ACE programme. His work focuses on state capture in Sub-Saharan Africa and…

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GI ACE is funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and UK International Development. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the UK Government’s official policies.

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