USA, 22 Feb (reason.com)Throwing the bums out is, for lack of a better word, good.Electing new political leaders and tossing out incumbents is correlated with improvements in economic growth and social well-being, according to a trio of economists from Harvard, MIT, and the French-based university...
Africa, 23 Feb (National Geographic)RUNDU, NAMIBIAOnce, the only marks on the ground in remote northeastern Namibia were the round, flat footprints of elephants; the cloven-hoofed spoor of giraffes, elands, sable antelopes, and cattle; and the tracks of a few four-wheel drive vehicles. Now, imprints of massive...
Berlin, 24 Feb (Transparency International)Corruption fuels conflict and insecurity globally, and we are now seeing its effects acutely in the case of Russia and Ukraine.Leading democracies have facilitated this conflict by allowing kleptocrats to further their interests and power across the West. Just last week, Transparency...
New York, 21 Feb (The New York Times)A leak of account data from Credit Suisse revealed the holdings of powerful figures across the Middle East, raising new questions about self-dealing.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman, pictured in 2005, had two Credit...
UK, 16 Feb (The Times) Priti Patel will scrap Britain’s so-called golden visa scheme next week in a bid to halt the flow of Russian “dirty money” into the UK. The Tier 1 investor visa gives rich foreigners who are willing to bring millions of pounds to...
Sweden, 16 Feb (Telecoms.com)Swedish kit vendor Ericsson has been forced to reveal the outcomes of an internal inquiry into the historical conduct of some of its employees in Iraq and investors are running scared.“Ericsson has continued to receive detailed media inquiries from Swedish and international...
Honduras, 18 Feb (THE TICO TIMES)The Honduran government of Xiomara Castro asked the UN on Thursday to create a commission against corruption and impunity, the Foreign Ministry announced.“The president of the Republic, Xiomara Castro, sent this Thursday a letter to the United Nations (UN) in...
CYPRUS, 18 Feb (CyprusMail) The government on Friday welcomed the passing of a law establishing an anti-corruption authority, saying the effort to combat the phenomenon on all levels “must and will continue”. The law passed on Thursday after four years of back-and-forth provides for the establishment of...
CARIBBEAN, 11 Feb (InSight Crime) Latin American countries scored poorly on Transparency International’s latest corruption index, with the worst joining the ranks of war-torn nations and dictatorships. Of the 19 Latin American countries ranked, three-quarters scored below 50 in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) for 2021. The worst was...
NEW YORK, 11 Feb (Business Insider) Prosecutors said the executives created a shell company to skirt a ban on political contributions. The executives also allegedly used family members in a scheme to make so-called "straw" donations. Sen. Susan Collins previously said she had no knowledge...