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Uganda: Where There’s a Will There’s a Way (And Vice-Versa)
Uganda has made regular appearances in the Global Integrity Report, with national assessments in each of the past three years, and and another to be released in February with the upcoming Global Integrity Report: 2009. Why do we continue to include Uganda on our short-list? Because the African country is an extreme example of the…
December 22, 2009
Global Integrity Report Featured on Egyptian TV
Khaled Badawy, a member of the Global Integrity research staff in Egypt, highlighted the results of our latest Egypt assessment during a governance debate on an Egyptian satellite television station. (For non-Arabic speakers: in the clip above Khaled is the young man with glasses.) Khaled is a governance and service-delivery expert who works with the…
December 17, 2009
New Survey “Gets in the Minds” of Indian Entrepreneurial Class
Disclosure: Legatum is a funder of Global Integrity The Legatum Institute’s latest survey dives into India’s expanding field of start-up businesses, asking Indian entrepreneurs where their motivation comes from and what the top hindrances are to business creation. The results show a group of enthusiastic and creative individuals who attribute their success more to their…
December 15, 2009
International Anti-Corruption Day: Zombie Advocacy for a Dead Policy
It’s International Anti-Corruption Day, and Global Integrity is having an internal debate over whether anyone should notice. Created with great fanfare as an advocacy tool to build momentum for the UN Convention Against Corruption, this “Day” is leftover hype for a specific policy that has already launched, crashed and burned. Forgive us for not breaking…
December 9, 2009
Estonia’s Minister of Justice Threatens to Imprison Journalists
In Estonia, new draft legislation would allow journalists to be incarcerated for up to one year for keeping their sources from the authorities. Reporting on this threat from firsthand experience is Tarmo Vahter, a reporter for weekly newspaper Eesti Ekspress. My second and thus far last questioning happened a year ago in the basement of…
December 3, 2009
MFTransparency: Throwing Light on Microcredit
In recent years, a handful of microfinance institutions (MFIs) have come under fire for charging low-income clients extremely high interest rates for their microcredit loans. The 120 percent annual interest rates offered by Mexico’s leading MFI, Compartamos, has produced profits but dubious public benefit, provoking outrage among fellow practitioners. A new venture hopes separate the…
December 2, 2009
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