Photo Credit: CIPE On the latest edition of CIPE’s Democracy that Delivers podcast, Shruti Shah, President and CEO of the Coalition for Integrity, discusses the growing demand for ethics & accountability around the world, and the role of the Coalition as they execute their mission. Shah illustrates her lifelong commitment to fighting corruption, and elaborates… Read More
Photo Credit: Arab Forum of Anti-Corruption Agencies & Financial Intelligence Units Arkan El Seblani manages the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) regional anti-corruption initiative in the Arab States. With his experience in private practice as a legal specialist in Lebanon, the United States and Qatar, coupled with more than 12 years’ experience with the UN,… Read More
Photo credit: James Mann This article originally appeared in the TFM Magazine, Volume 2 Number 13, 2018, p. 32 – 35. Is the question ‘WIIFM’? “What’s in it for me?” (WIIFM) This is the modus operandi most human beings use when making any decision in life. Mostly, making decisions based on this mentality does not… Read More
Photo Credit: Flickr Zimbabwe’s stunning overthrow of former President Robert Mugabe shocked the world – mostly because the people of Zimbabwe had just cause to oust him for decades. As president of Zimbabwe, Mugabe was so publicly corrupt that he led to the coining of the term “kleptocrat.” Since his overthrow, the new President Emmerson… Read More
Photo Credit: Derek Blackadder via Flickr On Thursday, February 8th, a Bangladeshi judge convicted Khaleda Zia, the head of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) of embezzlement and corruption, sentencing her to five years in prison. Zia has been charged in 37 different incidents over the course of the three decades she’s been in politics,… Read More
Photo Credit: Robert Nagle, Vlore, Money Lenders,1997 At their height in November 1996, a series of Albanian “Ponzi” schemes held money equal to almost half of the country’s total GDP. The schemes were fronted by a series of companies and charitable foundations that sprung up in newly capitalist Albania and offered monthly interest rates on… Read More