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This Week in Markets and Democracy: Mexico’s Anticorruption Reforms, South...
Mexico’s New Anticorruption Tools President Enrique Peña Nieto signed into law long-awaited rules to step up Mexico’s fight against corruption. He had to veto an earlier version that would have forced...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: New Panama Papers, 1MDB Scandal...
New Panama Papers Expose Africa’s Offshore Dealings The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) released a second round of Panama Papers. The documents reveal how private firms,...
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A Game of Inches: The Uncertain Fight Against Corruption in Latin America
Harvard’s inimitable Matthew Stephenson this week published a thought-provoking blog post comparing anticorruption efforts in Asia and Latin America. Crudely summarizing Stephenson’s argument, a few...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: Central America Takes on Corruption,...
Central America Takes on Corruption Central American judiciaries have been stepping up to fight corruption. Last year Guatemala’s attorney general’s office, working closely with UN-backed...
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Mexico’s Corrupt Governors
Last June, Mexico elected new governors in twelve of its thirty-one states. As millions of voters went to the urns, corruption was a top concern (along with insecurity). Eight states saw the incumbent...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: Violent Kleptocracies, Ethiopia’s Unrest
Fighting the Worst Kleptocracies Worse than kleptocracies are violent kleptocracies, as defined in a new report by advocacy group The Enough Project. In these, leaders run the state as a predatory...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: Embraer Corruption Case, UK Anti-Slavery...
Brazil’s Plane Maker Fined in Bribery Case Spanning Five Continents Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer will pay $205 million to U.S. authorities, including $20 million for Brazil, for bribing...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: Zuma’s Corruption Woes, DRC Sanctions,...
Report May Bring Down South Africa’s President New allegations may finally bring down teflon president Jacob Zuma. Despite his earlier legal protests, South Africa’s public protector’s office released...
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This Week in Markets and Democracy: New French Anticorruption Law, More...
France’s Anticorruption Reforms After years of criticism for failing to prosecute foreign bribery, France adopted a new anticorruption law that will force companies doing business on its soil to take...
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SDG 16 and the Corruption Measurement Challenge
Emerging Voices highlights new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges from contributing scholars and practitioners. This post is from Niklas Kossow, communications officer for the...
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