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…
Can Knowledge of Beneficial Ownership Assist in the Prevention of Laundering the Proceeds of Corruption?
Identification and disclosure of beneficial ownership (BO) has been viewed as the ‘silver bullet’ for the international community in its Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption (AML/ACL) efforts. The intergovernmental body, Financial…
Crosspost: A Remittance of Sins in Exchange for Money: Reputation Laundering’s Centrality to Kleptocracy
This is a crosspost from the Ratiu Forum blog, a joint initiative by the Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation, the Ratiu Democracy Centre and the London School of Economics IDEAS Think…
Crosspost: Bribery isn’t only an exchange of money – what new research tells us about how informal networks enable corruption and vice versa
This is a crosspost from the Basel Institute on Governance, written by GI-ACE researcher Claudia Baez Camargo on her project on harnessing informality. Bila watu hufiki popote. “Without people or…
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.
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.