Posts cover the costs of corruption of all kinds. Such costs include, but not limited to, those associated with and have negative impacts on the rule of law, public funds, and resources, education, healthcare, poverty, civil society, economic sustainability, foreign direct investment (FDI), interest rate, citizenship, and citizens trust in public institutions.
These posts also cover the negative consequences of corruption on the proper separation of powers (legislative, judicial, and executive), and tax collections.
September 7, 2021DW published an excellent documentary entitled “Corruption in South Africa.” As DW said, “When a country falls into the hands of kleptocrats, a state is taken over. This happens again and again, all over the world. Including in South Africa, of all places, where the fight for democracy...
September 3, 2021When one reads the opinion of the eye-witness, Sarah Chayes, on what happened in Afghanistan, he understands the nature, magnitude, and dynamics of corruption that devastated the country. One would not be surprised by the humiliation and shameful scenes at Kabul International Airport. Sarah’s opinion provides insights into how...
August 28, 2021The Danske Bank’s 200 billion euros ($235 billion) of suspicious transactions through its Estonian branch from 2007 to 2015 is the biggest money laundering scheme in history.Danske Bank money laundering ‘is biggest scandal in Europe’ – The American Anti-Corruption Institute (AACI)Read Moreblog.theaaci.comOn August 25, 2021, “Danske Bank A/S (DANSKE.CO) and former...
Technical staffAugust 26, 2021The government is in charge of fighting corruption in the country. However, to obtain meaningful outcomes, people, civil society, and the media community are required to engage in anti-corruption efforts. We will concentrate on what a government may do to accomplish successful anti-corruption goals in the private...
Mike. J. MasoudAugust 22, 2021The scenes of the chaos at the Kabul International Airport the world watched summed up the U.S. and its allies’ failure in Afghanistan. It is disgraceful, revealing, and costly. But occupation does not have more than one definition in the United Nations. History taught us that...
Technical StaffAugust 19, 2021When was the last time you asked yourself about the likelihood that corruption exists in your organization? Was it a month, six months, one year, or more than one year? But when was the last time the organization’s leadership conducted a corruption risk assessment and responded effectively...
Technical StaffJuly 31, 2021Corruption has become an integral part of the government’s failure to confront the plague of poverty and a lack of basic health and education services. We are not exaggerating when we claim that corruption is the primary cause of institutional, corporate, and state failure. What is happening...