Phase two of research (2022-now)
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Last week, Bain & Company announced it would shut its consultancy business in South Africa, after struggling for years to overcome the consequences of its involvement in state capture during…
This blog was written by Tihomira Kostova, Martin Vladimirov, and Ruslan Stefanov from the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). The authors explore how the grey zone between illegal…
This blog was developed by Caryn Peiffer, Nic Cheeseman, and Zenobia Ismail as part of the GI ACE research project Resisting State Capture from the Grassroots. Peiffer is Associate Professor of International Public Policy…
Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are exchanges which allow actors to trade in credits generated from emissions reductions or removals in order to offset their own carbon emissions. In this blog,…