(March 7, 2006) The Kenyan government has hired the Saatchi and Saatchi advertising agency to handle its nationwide anti-corruption campaign.
Canadian power company gets failing grade from Belizeans
(May 2, 2006) In its report card released today, the Belize Institute of Environmental Law and Policy gave
Canadian power giant, Fortis, a failing grade.
No political motive in Lavalin case: Chandy
(March 2, 2006) Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has denied a charge that the UDF government had referred the controversial SNC-Lavalin-Kerala State Electricity Board deal to the CBI to leverage political mileage in the coming assembly polls.
How the Three Gorges project was funded
(May 1, 2006) Where did the money come from to build the dam? For a start, all of China’s power consumers were forced to pay in advance for Three Gorges electricity, even though many will never use it.
Lesotho: NGO calls for audit of dam construction tenders
(April 25, 2006) Following allegations of corruption, a local NGO has appealed for an audit of the tenders allocated in the Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP), the world’s largest water transfer operation.
Africa Action confronts World Bank and IMF on health impact, corruption
(April 22, 2006) Ahead of this weekend’s Spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), Africa Action and allied organizations today staged a theatrical "health inspection" of these institutions, finding them to be a public health hazard in Africa and other impoverished regions.
Lesotho dismisses dam appeal
(April 14, 2006) Italy’s biggest construction company Impregilo has lost an appeal to challenge the right of the high court in Lesotho to try it for bribing officials to win a major dam contract there.
At World Bank, a pledge to focus on corruption
(April 13, 2006) Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, pledged Tuesday to push the fight against corruption to the center of the bank’s global development work in a speech outlining a comprehensive and detailed anti-corruption agenda.
Wolfowitz unveils anti-corruption strategy
(April 11, 2006) Jakarta: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz unveiled corruption fighting measures on Tuesday that will change the way the bank designs and approves development projects for poor countries.
Reaction to World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz’s remarks on corruption today
(April 11, 2006) Jubilee USA and East Timor and Indonesia Action Networks challenge Wolfowitz to address roots of corruption by canceling Indonesia’s Suharto-era debt.
Good governance and development: a time for action
(April 11, 2006) "Corruption is not just a problem for developing countries to deal with. . . . Indeed, every corrupt transaction has, unfortunately, at least two parties, and very often the bribe givers are from developed countries."
The World Bank weeds out corruption
(April 8, 2006) Will it touch the roots?
Paul Wolfowitz’s statement to the Media Centre in Aceh, Indonesia
(April 5, 2006) I think for Indonesia from the things I hear and read, most Indonesians agree that the country’s biggest development problem is corruption. . . . What {is encouraging} is that so many people in Indonesia are taking this problem seriously.
Exporters to identify agents and face random audits in anti-bribery drive
(April 5, 2006) Exporters will have to identify middlemen and face random audits to detect potential bribes under tough anti-corruption rules issued by the government yesterday.
Australia reaps Iraqi harvest
(April 4, 2006) United Nations sanctions against Saddam Hussein may have failed to end his regime but they succeeded in enriching both the Iraqi dictator and corporations able to manipulate the scandal-ridden world body’s Oil-for-Food program.
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