All posts tagged "corruption"

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  Plans to restrict access to Australia solicitor general withdrawn

  Australia’s attorney general George Brandis has backed down over the introduction of a directive controlling ministerial access to the country’s solicitor general. Brandis today tabled a new legal instrument repealing

  • Posted November 10, 2016
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  India moves to protect retired officials from corruption probes

  The Indian government is introducing amendments to an anti-corruption bill, in order to give retired civil servants the same protections from prosecution as serving officials. The move follows the suicides

  • Posted November 8, 2016
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  Australia publishes first government transparency action plan

  Better protection for tax fraud whistleblowers and new measures to tackle corruption in the public sector are among the commitments made in a national ‘open government’ plan published today by

  • Posted November 1, 2016
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  India collects $9.8bn in tax evasion amnesty scheme

  The Indian government has collected more than Rs650bn (US$9.8bn or UK£8bn) in the form of cash and assets through a tax evasion amnesty scheme. For a four-month period, ending in

  • Posted October 27, 2016
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  UK civil service ‘going backwards’ on diversity, survey finds

  New research suggests that ethnic minority representation among the UK’s top civil servants has declined, despite efforts at the highest level to address the issue. The survey by executive search

  • Posted September 26, 2016
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  Report urges sweeping reforms to reinvigorate India’s ‘stagnant’ civil service

  India’s civil service is in “urgent” need of reform to keep pace with the country’s economic growth, a US foreign policy think-tank has warned. In a report published earlier this

  • Posted September 21, 2016
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  Upheaval at Statistics Canada after chief’s protest resignation

  Canada has a new chief statistician after the previous incumbent, Wayne Smith, resigned suddenly in protest at an alleged loss of independence at the country’s central statistics agency. Anil Arora,

  • Posted September 19, 2016
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  Officials must be free to challenge ‘group think’, says UK civil service chief

  The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war has emphasized the importance of civil servants feeling free to “speak truth unto power”, the head of the UK civil service has told

  • Posted September 15, 2016
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  New executive order to give US departments greater power to scrutinise federal contractors

  US government departments will be given greater powers to ensure federal contractors comply with laws that protect their workers’ safety, wages and civil rights, under new regulations coming into force

  • Posted September 1, 2016
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  World Bank to offer free online course on good governance

  The World Bank has teamed up with a number of research institutes to offer a free online course on the governance of natural resources. Starting in September, the course will

  • Posted August 23, 2016
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