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South Africa and the Scorpions: The Slow Death of an Elite Anti-Corruption Squad
In a preview of the Global Integrity Report: 2008, to be released February 18, Global Integrity reporter (and Mail & Guardian regular) Sam Sole examines the politics of anti-corruption and how they led to the death of one of Africa’s most respected anti-corruption units, the Scorpions. South Africa and the Scorpions: The Slow Death of…
February 10, 2009
USA: Congressional Research Service’s 6,731 Secret Reports Leaked
The Congressional Research Service is a branch of the Library of Congress that provides bespoke research to Congress. With an annual budget of around US$100 million, this agency provides factual grounding to legislative debates. Their work is paid for by taxpayers and in the public domain… except that it’s mostly secret, despite failed efforts to…
February 9, 2009
Doing Business Blog Scrubs Corruption/Oil Post
Our post below references (rather critically) a Doing Business Blog post on Sunday, Feb. 8th entitled “Russia: Corruption Prevention during Financial Crisis”. While references to the post still show up in the blog’s search catalog, it’s no longer on the site. Draw your own conclusions. Thanks to the creepy magic of Google cache, here’s the…
Junk Corruption/Oil Theory Gains More Fans
Now the folks at Doing Business are perpetuating the flimsy theory that that Russian bribes and the price of oil might move in tandem. See our rant from last week on this, which unpacks why the underlying data is so shaky. Grr….this is especially annoying coming from the IFC, whose Doing Business survey is among…
February 8, 2009
USA: State Department’s Human Rights Division Getting the Boot
Foreign Policy’s blog, The Cable, reports that the perpetually shafted Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor is maybe getting kicked out of the US State Department’s main building and sent across the street, cutting access to senior State officials. Office remodeling is cited as the reason, but once moved, it’ll be tough to reclaim…
February 6, 2009
Hey Experts: Stop Abusing the Corruption Perceptions Index!
Admittedly, I am not a fan of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) (and similar perceptions-based indices), the limitations of which are discussed at length in our book, A Users’ Guide to Measuring Corruption. I was going to rant about a very public abuse of the CPI last week, then got distracted by actual work……
February 4, 2009
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