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The Global Anticorruption Blog focuses on encouraging analysis and conversation about corruption issues worldwide. It aims to create a space for sharing insights and perspectives from various fields and professions. The blog also seeks to inspire thorough, lively, and constructive discussions about the roots, impacts, and possible solutions to corruption.

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Guest Post: Italy’s Misguided, and Possibly Illegal, Repeal of the Abuse of Office Offense

Jan 2, 2025 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

Today’s guest post is from Roberta De Paolis, a post doctoral fellow in Criminal Law at the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa. For nearly a hundred years, the Italian criminal code included an “abuse of office” offense.
Guest Post: Embracing and Enhancing IMF’s Governance Conditionalities To Fight Corruption

Dec 9, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

Today’s guest post is from Beauty Emefa Narteh, the Executive Secretary at the Ghana Anti-Corruption Coalition, and Leslie Tsai, General Counsel at the Chandler Foundation and lead for the organization’s efforts to support good governance, increased transparency and accountability, and robust international and national integrity ecosystems IMF bailouts of countries in financial distress often come with unpopular strings attached—strict conditionalities related to fiscal policy that often...
The Fight Against Corruption Is at Stake in Milan

Nov 30, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Richard Messick

That’s how former French magistrate and renowned corruption fighter Eva Joly sees current developments in Italy. Two prosecutors there face prison for actions taken during the bribery trial of Italy’s largest company. Writing in the Argentine opinion journal Clarín, Mme.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Dan Hough

Oct 28, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Professor Dan Hough of the University of Sussex’s Centre for the Study of Corruption about his new book, Foul Play: Tackling Football’s Integrity Problem. Professor Hough discusses how he applies analytical frameworks from the corruption and governance fields to analyze the integrity challenges facing football, both on and off the pitch.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring David Jancsics

Oct 18, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Professor David Jancsics of the San Diego State University School of Public Affairs about about his his research on the sociology of corruption.
Guest Post: Lessons from the Extractive Sector for Fighting Corruption in Green Energy

Oct 11, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

Today’s guest post comes from Mark Robinson, Executive Director of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), and Maja de Vibe, Senior Vice President at Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy. They write in a personal capacity, building on a joint research paper published by the Basel Institute on Governance. In response to the global climate crisis, countries around the world are seeking to shift to clean energy.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Tom Firestone and Scott Greytak

Sep 17, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

After a brief late-summer hiatus, a new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Tom Firestone, a partner at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs, and Scott Greytak, the Director of Advocacy at Transparency International US, about the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA), a new and groundbreaking piece of US federal legislation that makes it a crime for any foreign official to demand or accept a bribe from an...
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Anna Petherick and Ortrun Merkle

Aug 6, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Anna Petherick, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government, and Ortrun Merkle, a Research Fellow at the United Nations University-Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute.
New Podcast Episode, Featuring Lucio Picci

Jul 22, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available.In this episode, host Liz Dávid-Barrett interviews Lucio Picci, a professor of economics at the University of Bologna, about his recent work on rethinking the current anticorruption paradigm.
Guest Post: The Need for Better Monitoring and Evaluation of Anticorruption Projects

Jul 16, 2024 | globalanticorruptionblog.com | Matthew Stephenson

Today’s guest post comes from Tom Shipley, a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the University of Sussex. While the anticorruption field is rife with disagreements and debates about “what works,” one thing that pretty much everyone can agree on is the need for more and better evidence. This is why it is so important that governments and other organizations engage in appropriate monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities to assess the impact of their anticorruption work.