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Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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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
        • Crisis Emergencies, State Responses and ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • The Corrupting Effect of Political Connections in Public Procurement through Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for Combating Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating Corruption Risk in the Climate Transition: Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making, Beliefs, and Local Social Norms
        • 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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    • From Research to Practice
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  • About
  • Our work
    • 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
        • Crisis Emergencies, State Responses and ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • The Corrupting Effect of Political Connections in Public Procurement through Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for Combating Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating Corruption Risk in the Climate Transition: Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making, Beliefs, and Local Social Norms
        • 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
    • Fellowship
    • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • From Research to Practice
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Blogs
    • Newsletter
    • Multimedia
    • Digital Library
  • News & events
    • GI ACE in the news
    • Seminars/events
  • Contact

Category Archives: International Architecture

Paying for a World Class Affiliation: Reputation laundering in universities

Heathershaw, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE25/05/2021Leave a comment

Researchers John Heathershaw and Tena Prelec explain the potential benefits in store for the super wealthy politically exposed persons (PEPs) donating to academia in pursuit of reputation laundering.

Global Britain: Enabling Kleptocracy?

Heathershaw, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE01/04/2021Leave a comment

Researchers John Heathershaw and Tom Mayne describe how the UK may be failing to enforce laws designed to stop illicit financial flows and “foreign dark money” from entering the country.

Why do people set up offshore shell companies? Some preliminary findings from the Panama and Paradise Papers

Haberly, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE17/11/2020Leave a comment

GI ACE researcher Dan Haberly analyses the structure behind offshore shell company formation.

From Lab to Online Research: a Transition Full of Challenges

Chmura, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE28/10/2020Leave a comment

GI-ACE researcher Thorsten Chmura discussed focus of research on transnational corruption in international business, pushing the boundaries of citizen science.

Anti-corruption in Aid-funded Procurement: Whacking the Mole is Not Enough

David-Barrett, David-Barrett_ext, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE06/10/2020Leave a comment

GI-ACE researchers Liz Dávid-Barrett and Mihály Fazekas use big data analysis from a recent World Bank procurement reform dataset to show how corruption is a moving target.

Are Promised Changes to Nigeria’s Anti-corruption Architecture Built On Sand?

Harvey, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE28/09/2020Leave a comment

GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses commitments that appeared to address two recent criticisms made of Nigeria’s anti-corruption regime – overlapping mandates and lack of inter-agency cooperation – that had been identified by various authors in recent years

From a Surrey mansion to an Uzbek prison: Revisiting the case of Gulnara Karimova

Heathershaw, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE23/09/2020Leave a comment

GI-ACE researcher Tom Mayne discusses project investigating laundering of monies and reputations by professional enablers for African and Central Asian elites.

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The Gendered Nature of Corruption: A Case Study on Small-Scale Cross Border Trade in Kenya

GI ACE, International Architecture, KloppBy GI ACE22/09/2020Leave a comment

One year further into its GI ACE-supported research concerning the role of integrity and corruption within the planning profession in Zambia and South Africa, the African Centre for Cities’ “Cities of Integrity” (COI) research team has hit new milestones and made progress in achieving its research objectives.

Mapping Politically Exposed Person (PEP)-linked shell companies in the Panama and Paradise Papers

Haberly, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE23/06/2020Leave a comment

GI ACE researcher Dan Haberly analyses the changing international regulatory landscape has impacted shell company use since the turn of the millennium.

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