Countering state capture: What role can the IMF play?
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…
The legacy of the Zondo Commission
Devi Pillay is a research fellow at GI ACE and a research associate at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in South Africa. She was previously a researcher and analyst…
Addressing Corruption in Crises Matters: Towards effective crisis-responses in the Malawian health system
Claudia Baez Camargo (Head of Prevention, Research & Innovation, Basel Institute on Governance) and Dina Balabanova, Professor of Health Systems and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine share…
‘National consultation’ in Hungary as a form of state capture
In this blog, Dr Fanni Gyurko (Research Associate at the University of Glasgow School of Law) shows how the National Consultation exercise is instrumentalised to legitimise state capture in Hungary.…
Paradise under construction: How urban growth fuels money laundering across touristic cities in the Global South
Fabiano Angélico, senior researcher at the Public Integrity Research Group (GRIP) – Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), and Prof. Jean‑Patrick Villeneuve (GRIP &USI) share early insights from the “Corruption in…
The Zondo Commission and its investigations into state capture in South Africa
Devi Pillay is a research fellow at GI ACE and a research associate at the Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) in South Africa. She was previously a researcher and analyst…
State capture: New research and reflections on the field
Liz Dávid-Barrett is Professor of Governance and Integrity at the University of Sussex and Programme Director of GI ACE and the Director of the Centre for the Study of Corruption.…
Are ‘professional enablers’ providing access to justice?
Professor Robert Barrington reviews recent research under the GI ACE Programme on ‘Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians’, concluding that the default justification that any lawyer is obliged to represent any client…
High time to curb bank capture
Michael Hornsby, Impact Manager at the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC), outlines findings from a recent policy brief co-authored with the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa (PPLAAF). The brief examines…