Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites & the Enabling of Corruption
Suzana Salim
From Secrecy to Scrutiny: A New Map of Illicit Global Financial Networks and Regulation
This publication focuses on groundbreaking research revealing significant shifts in the pattern of global illicit financial flows (IFFs). The study, led by Dr. Daniel Haberly, reveals how and where different types of illicit money flows around the world.
Can crisis preparedness prevent corruption in emergency responses?
Much attention was devoted to the corruption that dominated emergency responses during the Covid-19 pandemic. My team and I undertook research for Governance & Integrity’s Anti-Corruption Evidence Program on the…
Kleptocracy and the Kazakhstan Crisis
Both Russian-led intervention and calls for Western sanctions demonstrate the transnational and kleptocratic aspects of Kazakhstan’s crisis of January 2022 On 5 January, following three days of protests which…
Enough of reductionist binary divides…
Professor Robert Barrington has offered some reflections prompted by the recent exchange between Matthew Stephenson and Bo Rothstein, seeking to contest the ‘narrative of anticorruption failure’. He appears to attribute…
Paying for a World Class Affiliation: Reputation laundering in universities
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.
The differential impact of managerial civil service reform on corruption in developing and OECD countries
Researcher Christian Schuster shares research insights demonstrating that civil service reform and management practices cannot be applied indiscriminately in developing and OECD countries, as these reforms have differential effects on corruption.
Global Britain: Enabling Kleptocracy?
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.