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What’s Going On With Ecuador’s Police?
In 2008, Global Integrity completed its first-ever assessment of Somalia. Somalia’s overall score of 35 earned it the distinction of the lowest in the history of the Global Integrity Report. This is to be expected in a nation where the government has no presence and is unable to enforce whatever weak legal framework does exist.…
April 30, 2009
Biti speaks on Zimbabwe’s corrupt “catfish” and his nation’s future
Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, spoke of his country as a “failed state” to a crowd at the National Endowment for Democracy on Monday. While things in Zimbabwe are beyond bad, Biti said that current realities must be viewed in a broader context. He pointed to the high levels of violence and anger seen…
April 29, 2009
Coming Soon… The World Bank’s Actionable Governance Indicators Data Portal
Yesterday, Global Integrity got a sneak peek at a new World Bank online data portal, the Actionable Governance Indicators Data Portal. The portal brings together a number of actionable governance indicators and data sets (including Global Integrity’s Integrity Indicators, Doing Business, the International Budget Partnership’s Open Budget data, and PEFA assessments), into an easy-to-use web-based…
April 28, 2009
Global Integrity Report: 2009 — Call for Experts
We are once again happy to announce our annual Call for Experts for help in generating the Global Integrity Report: 2009. The Global Integrity Report is our flagship collection of national-level anti-corruption and good governance assessments. Please see the announcement below for more details, and feel free to forward this post to any colleagues and…
April 22, 2009
Headlines in Tanzania: Millions Go Missing in Donor Backed Program
Three years have passed since the Norwegian government first discovered that US$30 million of its funding to a Tanzanian government-run natural resources project went missing. However, the Tanzanian public is only now learning of the scandal. In this guest post, Peter Bofin, a member of the Tanzanian peer review team for the Global Integrity Report:…
Brazillian Satellite Radio
A recent issue of Wired Magazine featured a story by Marcelo Soares, a member of Global Integrity’s Brazilian field team. His story details “Operation Satellite,” a government crack down on the hijacking of foreign (mainly U.S.) satellites. For years, locals have been stealing these high tech devices and using “homebrew gear” to transform them into…
April 21, 2009
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