Commercials showed humble peasant families as the people who’d benefit from a new government subsidy program intended for farmers. Soon after, though, entire families of campaign donors were receiving millionaire subsidies. Beauty queens and extradited criminals tagged along as well. In the 2009 Reporter’s Notebook: Colombia, award-winning reporter Ignacio Gómez tells a story about how…
In Nepal, tourists don’t need to leave the airport to start experiencing the “adventures” of visiting one of the most corrupt countries in the world. True to the country’s bad reputation, corruption makes a quick appearance as soon as passengers arrive and are victims of everything from bribes to plain theft, by staff of the…
It is a really bad sign when police find more than US$1 million in cash in the office of the Administrative Appellate Court head, particularly if his explanation is that he was going to give the money to a church and didn’t have “time” to do it. But for lawyers and prosecutors in Ukraine, the…
The Carter Center held a Freedom of Information (FOIA) summit in Africa last month to discuss the continent’s continuing struggles with citizen access to information. What was agreed upon? Tracking with findings from previous Global Integrity Reports, participants noted a need to go beyond broad rights to information (as guaranteed in the constitutions of many…
Global Integrity Report: 2009 clarification: It has come to our attention that a press release was issued locally in Trinidad & Tobago suggesting that the country had been added to Global Integrity’s Grand Corruption Watchlist. This is not the case. Readers with questions about our reporting in the country should feel free to send an…
Global Integrity is giving away $1000 in cash prizes to bloggers, designers and analysts who use our data. What do Global Integrity data say about an issue, country or region you care about? What is the story buried in that raw data? The Global Integrity Mashup Challenge is a search for original analysis of Global…