By Matthew Stephenson This blog appeared originally on May 24, 2016 on The Global Anti-Corruption Blog. It is re-posted here with permission. In my two posts last week (here and here), I attempted to go through all of the 41 country statements submitted by the participants in the London Anticorruption Summit held earlier this month, to… Read More
By Andrew Wilson Joining business and civil society leaders around the world to explain why tackling corruption matters, CIPE’s acting Executive Director Andrew Wilson stresses the need to make business part of the solution. CIPE is one of the many organizations contributing to the Anti-Corruption Manifesto to world leaders organized by Transparency International in the lead… Read More
By: Pakistan Representative, Accountability Lab, Fayyaz Yaseen and Executive Director, Accountability Lab, Blair Glencorse. This blog post was originally published by the World Economic Forum then Accountability Lab. Posted on CCTrends with permission. “What kind of Pakistan do we want for our children?”, a civil society activist asked recently. “It has to be an inclusive state which is fair, honest and… Read More
Writing on Medium, CIPE’s acting Executive Director Andrew Wilson asks: with technological change and trade deals making it easier than ever to enter the global marketplace, how can we ensure robust compliance with anti-corruption, labor, environmental, and corporate governance standards? Read the story on Medium and follow CIPE for more stories like this one.
As the world’s attention turns this month towards U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London, the British government has launched an ambitious project to understand what works and doesn’t work when it comes to reducing corruption in developing countries. The multi-year, $5.2 million effort is part of an Anti-Corruption Evidence partnership between the… Read More
Mutually beneficial exchange of goods and services is at the heart of David Ricardo’s comparative advantage argument and Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Over the centuries, such exchange through commerce has connected countries around the globe through a web of economic links and lifted millions out of poverty. In the modern era, international agreements… Read More