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.
Can public servants help prevent the resource curse in African countries?
Researcher Adam Harris discusses the results of surveys of public servants in ten countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe that focused on the experience of public servants in relation to public service management, their integrity, attitudes, and motivation to serve citizens and deliver policies in accordance with the public interest.
The case for accessible audit data: tracking the effectiveness of Indian governance schemes
GI-ACE researcher Amrita Dhillon explores the challenges of aggregating audit data of Indian government schemes in order to create a database that is accessible to policymakers, economists and academics.
Learnings from the IACC Panel on Frontiers in Building Integrity
GI-ACE researchers shared insights at the International Anti Corruption Conference on how to foster professional integrity across industries, sectors, and groups of professions.
Trust, Public Health, and Corruption
GI ACE researcher Brigham Daniels describes the challenges of vaccine dissemination in country contexts where the government has been mired in accusations of corruption.
Why do people set up offshore shell companies? Some preliminary findings from the Panama and Paradise Papers
GI ACE researcher Dan Haberly analyses the structure behind offshore shell company formation.
“A transparent system, run by people without integrity, is equally corrupt”: Municipal officials dissect issues of corruption and integrity in South Africa’s urban development processes
GI-ACE researcher Christian Alexander shares learnings from the Cities of Integrity conference that is spearheading research on integrity in urban planners.
From Lab to Online Research: a Transition Full of Challenges
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
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.