Global Integrity presents best practices for governance metrics at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Athens. IACC Athens: A Users' Guide to Measuring Corruption from Global Integrity on Vimeo. More on the book A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption.
Disclosure: The World Bank is a funder of Global Integrity. From the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI), a new analysis has sharp criticism for the World Bank’s corruption metrics. They find that metrics are proposed “without considerations of the political economy and without clear strategies to win the support of a critical mass of key leaders.”…
Our friends at CENTAL have launched a news portal aggregating all corruption stories reported in the Liberian media. Read it here: Liberia Corruption Watch— Jonathan Werve
A new trend in the U.S. — corporations getting into the election spirit with free handouts to voters. It’s all good spirited democratic cheerleading; it’s also illegal. Major U.S. retail brands like Starbucks, Krispe Kreme and 7-11 are eager to engage with their customers around the election. It’s a convergence of three trends — an…
With a short time remaining in office, “President Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others,” reports the New York Times. In the midst of a presidential campaign that featured an incumbent party determined minimize President Bush’s visibility, many of these changes have…
The Washington Post reports on a rebuke to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by the Iranian Parliament, as they impeach a minister for inflating his resume. An Ahmadinejad aide was fired after unsuccessfully attempting to bribe MPs not to impeach. Washington Post: Iran’s parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to impeach a cabinet minister who has been a close…