(August 20, 2004) A squeaky-clean reputation for business and government is usually an excellent guide to a country’s prosperity and economic openness. The Apec Business Advisory Council has put the fight against corruption at the top of its list of key issues.
Schroeder pledges to help rebuild Iraq
(August 18, 2004) Chancellor Schroeder said today that the German government is ready to "substantially" reduce Iraq’s debts to Germany to ensure more funds were put to the post-war reconstruction of the country.
Shady Acres
(August 16, 2004) Richard Bentley, the 18th-century English scholar, once observed that "no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself." It is so, too, with corporations. A striking demonstration of this is Acres International.
World Bank approves reform of extractive industries in Nigeria, others
(August 16, 2004) The Board of the World Bank Group has called for reforms of the Extractive Industries (mining, oil and gas) in Nigeria and other developing countries. The World Bank has endorsed the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.
The Senate and corruption
(August 15, 2004) After two years, 130 countries including the Philippines completed the negotiation for a landmark United Nations Convention Against Corruption.
Review of the Fund’s strategy on overdue financial obligations
(August 13, 2004) In a review of countries in protracted arrears to the IMF, the Fund said emergency post-conflict funding for Iraq would be approved once it had paid off an $80 million debt to the IMF.
Report calls for independent anti-corruption authority
(August 12, 2004) To curb corruption, public administration reform must include the strengthening of parliamentary oversight and accounting bodies like the Auditor-General’s office, and new laws.
Look beyond bias to explain investment dearth
(August 12, 2004) Who benefits from weak and corrupt governments? Companies that require cheap production and every opportunity to circumvent statutory obligations.
Corruption Choking Growth – World Bank
(August 12, 2004) Corruption, coupled with non-transparent regulations, red tape and the lack of infrastructure, is choking economic growth in Cambodia according to a damning World Bank report released Thursday.
Freed migrant leader He Kechang still fighting for justice
(August 11, 2004) He Kechang, jailed for three years for appealing to top Chinese leaders about corruption in the Three Gorges resettlement operation, has been released and is still struggling on behalf of people uprooted by the dam.
World Bank slams Cambodian investments
(August 11, 2004) Rampant corruption has paralyzed private businesses and is hampering economic growth in Cambodia, the World Bank said Thursday in a damning report about the country’s bribe-ridden investment climate.
Iraq: UN panel says oil-for-food probe to take much longer than expected
(August 10, 2004) The head of an independent panel investigating corruption in the United Nations’ "oil-for-food" program for Iraq says it may take another year to produce its main findings.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project: bribery on a massive scale
(August 8, 2004) Many of the legal aspects of corruption have now been thoroughly and recently tested in the Lesotho courts, challenging the ways in which corruption is detected and punished in different parts of the world.
The boom that only oils the wheels of corruption
(August 5, 2004) The new wealth from oil development in sub-Saharan Africa has been used almost exclusively for the enrichment of political leaders, and as a consequence most of the population remains poor and unprotected.
Fight against corruption is a thankless battle – Kamazima
(August 4, 2004) The fight against corruption is a thankless battle, observed Southern Africa Forum Against Corruption (SAFAC) out-going chairman Major General Anatory Kamazima yesterday.
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