For the first time, Costa Rica started a trial against a former President, Rafael Angel Calderon, accused of aggravated corruption for supposedly masterminding a plan to obtain economic benefits from a government procurement project. Anyone can witness the trial (if they get there in time to grab one of the 30 seats available to the…
DetailsGlobal Integrity welcomes Costa Rican journalist Hazel Feigenblatt to the Commons blog. Hazel is an investigative journalist with La Nacion in Costa Rica who is visiting us in our Washington office, and will be guest blogging with us in addition to her work with La Nacion. Starting in December, she’s be supporting Global Integrity’s local…
DetailsGlobal 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.
DetailsDisclosure: 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.”…
DetailsOur 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
DetailsA 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…
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