All posts tagged "corruption"

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  New chief of financial watchdog pledges to boost organisation’s confidence and establish ‘clear mission’

  The new civil servant in charge of Britain’s financial watchdog has revealed his plan to review the regulator’s mission in a bid to boost the organisation’s confidence and improve its

  • Posted July 26, 2016
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  Committee pushes US government on ‘conversion’ of political appointees to civil servants

  The main US parliamentary committee has launched an investigation into the conversion of political appointees to civil servants – a process which runs the “risk of favouring political staff at the expense

  • Posted July 22, 2016
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  Strengthening citizens’ voice in public policymaking is key, says new OGP chief

  Strengthening the “voice of the poor” and general citizen engagement in the design of public policies will be key to the Open Government Partnership’s (OGP) success over the next five years,

  • Posted May 18, 2016
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  New transparency rules to help tackle corruption

  Six countries have pledged to publish public registers of ‘beneficial ownership’ covering all the companies within their jurisdiction, whilst some of the world’s tax havens have agreed to share full

  • Posted May 12, 2016
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  Italian Chamber of Deputies passes ethics code

  The Italian parliament’s lower house has passed an ethics code, closing a loophole under which members of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies were among the few parliamentarians in Europe not governed

  • Posted May 9, 2016
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  Anti-corruption campaigner: “establishment corruption” threatens UK’s image overseas

  The UK suffers from a “peculiarly British form of corruption” involving “the legalisation of things that look dodgy,” the executive director of Transparency International’s UK chapter has told Global Government

  • Posted April 28, 2016
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  Robert Barrington, executive director of Transparency International UK: exclusive interview

  As the UK prepares to host an anti-corruption summit designed to break the deadlock on global action, Robert Barrington, the UK head of Transparency International tells Matt Ross that Britain

  • Posted April 28, 2016
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  OECD releases new anti-corruption toolkit

  A new OECD toolkit to tackle corruption can now be used by governments around the world. The tool specifically aims at the mining, oil and gas industries and provides evidence-based

  • Posted April 27, 2016
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  New health booking system tackles corruption and cuts waiting times

  A new appointment booking system introduced in the city of Canoas, in Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul region, has boosted the number of daily consultations from 900 to 2,000. The

  • Posted April 19, 2016
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  Patricia Scotland calls for Commonwealth-wide anti-corruption unit

  The new head of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, has today called for the creation of a new unit working across the 53 nation group to fight corruption. Scotland, who

  • Posted April 18, 2016
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