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…
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…
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 Paradise” project. They explore how rapid urban…
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.…
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…
From Loopholes to Launchpads: How IFFs Enable Strategic Adversaries
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…
Indulging Kleptocracy: British Service Providers, Postcommunist Elites & the Enabling of Corruption
February 2025 saw the publication by Oxford University Press of Indulging Kleptocracy, a groundbreaking new book by John Heathershaw, Tena Prelec and Tom Mayne. The book examines how lawyers, real…
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…
Global Finance and the Enablers of Corruption – Professional intermediaries and the evidence of their role in Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs)
A new report from the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence Programme (GI-ACE) entitled “Global Finance and the Enablers of Corruption” reviews the body of evidence that seeks to demonstrate why and how enablers become involved in IFF schemes, what instruments exist to deter them, and how effective these instruments have been in practice. With ample use of case studies and news reporting, the report illustrates how regulatory frameworks do not operate in a vacuum, but within the context of distinct jurisdictions, and with real-world trade-offs related to privacy, security, and the resources needed for development, implementation and enforcement.