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Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic global south
        • Identifying enabler networks and their vulnerabilities
        • Testing and evidencing compliance with beneficial ownership checks
        • Gatekeepers, enablers or technicians: The contested interpretation of lawyers as facilitators of kleptocracy and grand corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing corruption in the crisis response of the Malawian health system
        • Crisis emergencies, state responses and ‘windows’ of corruption in Uganda
        • The corrupting effect of political connections in public procurement through crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for combating illicit cross-border trade and money laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating corruption risk in the climate transition: Trading in voluntary carbon markets
        • International deal-making, beliefs, and local social norms
        • Ethical border trading between Kenya and Uganda for small-scale businesses
      • State capture
        • Building resilience to state capture
        • Resisting state capture from the grassroots: Civil society efforts and public perceptions
        • Building institutional resilience to global illicit financial flows as enablers and drivers of state capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Fighting high-level corruption in Africa: Learning from effective law enforcement
        • Addressing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural approach
        • Detecting and deterring medication theft: A field study in health clinics in Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement using ‘red flags’ risk indicators
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of integrity: Urban planning and corruption in Africa
        • Can positive public recognition lead to good governance?
        • Harnessing informality: Designing anti-corruption network interventions and strategic use of legal instruments
        • Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian state
        • Civil service reform and anti-corruption: Does ethics training reduce corruption in the civil service?
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  • About
  • Our work
    • Research themes
      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic global south
        • Identifying enabler networks and their vulnerabilities
        • Testing and evidencing compliance with beneficial ownership checks
        • Gatekeepers, enablers or technicians: The contested interpretation of lawyers as facilitators of kleptocracy and grand corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing corruption in the crisis response of the Malawian health system
        • Crisis emergencies, state responses and ‘windows’ of corruption in Uganda
        • The corrupting effect of political connections in public procurement through crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Lessons for combating illicit cross-border trade and money laundering from the Congo
        • Interrogating corruption risk in the climate transition: Trading in voluntary carbon markets
        • International deal-making, beliefs, and local social norms
        • Ethical border trading between Kenya and Uganda for small-scale businesses
      • State capture
        • Building resilience to state capture
        • Resisting state capture from the grassroots: Civil society efforts and public perceptions
        • Building institutional resilience to global illicit financial flows as enablers and drivers of state capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Fighting high-level corruption in Africa: Learning from effective law enforcement
        • Addressing bribery in the Tanzanian health sector: A behavioural approach
        • Detecting and deterring medication theft: A field study in health clinics in Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement using ‘red flags’ risk indicators
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of integrity: Urban planning and corruption in Africa
        • Can positive public recognition lead to good governance?
        • Harnessing informality: Designing anti-corruption network interventions and strategic use of legal instruments
        • Centralised versus decentralised monitoring to reduce corruption: Insights from comparisons across Indian state
        • Civil service reform and anti-corruption: Does ethics training reduce corruption in the civil service?
    • Fellowship
    • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • From Research to Practice
  • Resources
    • Publications
    • Blogs
    • Newsletter
    • Multimedia
    • Kickback – The Global AntiCorruption Podcast
    • Digital Library
  • News & events
    • GI ACE in the news
    • Seminars/events
  • Contact

Category Archives: Blogs

Paradise under construction: How urban growth fuels money laundering across touristic cities in the Global South

Blogs, GI ACE, GI ACE Phase 2, money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South, VilleneuveBy Suzana Salim10/10/2025Leave a comment

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…

The Zondo Commission and its investigations into state capture in South Africa

Blogs, Building resilience to state capture, GI ACE, GI ACE Phase 2By Suzana Salim19/09/2025Leave a comment

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…

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