(March 8, 2006) While Chile battled recession in the early 80s, General Augusto Pinochet was using a false name to hide his fortune in Chilean banks.
Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa Report Released
(March 7, 2005) The long awaited final report of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Commission for Africa calls on the developed world to help Africa curb corruption by cleaning up its own act, reports the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
World Bank’s anti-graft drive ‘needs resources’
(March 6, 2006) The former head of Canada’s development aid agency has suggested that corruption in World Bank projects still goes unchecked, and that anti-graft actions were often disjointed from other aspects of the bank’s work.
Is high-level graft really punishable?
(March 6, 2006) The ongoing revelations of corruption at the heart of Kenya’s government pose the question: what will happen to the masterminds?
Is Zhaiwan’s pipe dream coming true?
(March 3, 2006) Residents ofZhaiwan village in Hubei province, where a cancer cluster has been linked to the severe pollution of local rivers, have been promised clean drinking water piped right into their homes by the end of this month.
Why poor countries are poor
(March 1, 2006) They call Douala the “armpit of Africa.” Lodged beneath the bulging shoulder of West Africa, this malaria-infested city in southwestern Cameroon is humid, unattractive, and smelly.
‘Few countries have much mettle for enforcing anti-bribery laws’
(February 27, 2006) According to Probe International in Toronto, Germany and Japan are challenging efforts to tighten anti-corruption guidelines covering companies supported by official export credit agencies.
Experience and Practice of Combating Bribery in Officially Supported Export Credits
(February 24, 2006) Prepared by Dr. Sue Hawley, The Corner House, on behalf of ECA-Watch The evidence so far from the OECD Working Group on Bribery Phase 2 reviews.
Germany and Japan block new anti-bribery guidelines for export credit agencies
(February 24, 2006) Anti-bribery watchdog Probe International calls OECD guidelines "paper tiger" anyway.
Covering letter for the ECA-Watch briefing paper on bribery in its phase 2 reviews
(February 24, 2006) “The paper details comments made so far about Export Credit Agency practice on combating bribery and looks at the recommendations made by the OECD Working Group on Bribery and Phase 2 peer review examiners for improving ECA practice" regarding bribery.
India’s Comptroller and Auditor General finds major lapses in government electricity deal with Canadian firm, SNC Lavalin
(February 21, 2006) The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has uncovered serious deviations in a power contract awarded to Canadian construction
firm SNC Lavalin in 1996.
CAG uncovers serious deviations in Canadian power contract
(February 21, 2006) India’s Comptroller and Auditor General finds major lapses in government electricity deal with Canadian firm, SNC Lavalin.
Wolfowitz’s corruption agenda
(February 20, 2006) Nine months into his tenure as president of the World Bank, Paul
Wolfowitz has made headlines mainly by provoking a staff backlash.
Noisy scenes over Lavalin
(February 16, 2006)The State Assembly witnessed noisy scenes over the SNC Lavalin issue as Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed replied to allegations made by Opposition members.
Ready to face any inquiry into SNC Lavalin deal, says CPI (M)
(February 15, 2006) Party State secretariat accuses ruling front of having falsified facts.
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