Source: CIPE By Liad Roytfarb, a fellow with CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center In September 2018, a CIPE conference highlighted the growing concern over corrosive capital. Corrosive capital is state-driven capital transmitted from authoritarian countries to different parts of the world that can have negative effects on democratic institutions and private enterprise. CIPE and the… Read More
Tselinniy back in the day. Photo Credit: Central State Archive of Film and Photo Documents and Audio Recordings of the Republic of Kazakhstan. By Caroline Elkin, a Program Assistant with CIPE’s Europe and Eurasia Team Last week, a court in Almaty, Kazakhstan sentenced the city’s former akim (mayor or governor) Viktor Khrapunov, his wife, stepson,… Read More
Photo Credit: Open Contracting Partnership and the Natural Resource Governance Institute By Peter Glover, an Assistant Program Officer with CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center The Open Contracting Partnership and the Natural Resource Governance Institute jointly released a report called “Open Contracting for Oil, Gas, and Mineral Rights: Shining a Light on Good Practice.” The report… Read More
Photo Credit: Eric Walter, Wikimedia Commons By Frank Brown, the Director of CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center Heads of state, especially from small countries, often wait all year for a chance to take the world stage at the annual September United Nations General Assembly. Presidents, prime ministers, and supreme leaders speak on issues ranging from… Read More
Photo Credit: Associated Press By Jeanne Cook, a Program Officer with CIPE’s Anti-Corruption and Governance Center In July 2018, Peruvian citizens marched in the streets of Lima to protest Peru’s latest judicial corruption scandal. Only six months before, former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski resigned amid allegations that he accepted bribes from Brazilian Construction firm Odebrecht…. Read More