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Fighting Corruption with a Double-Edged Sword
Fighting against crime and corruption means to fight battles on all kinds of fronts. Institutional reform is one of them: you need to establish accountability institutions outside the executive...
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Murder and Impunity
The issues of journalism and a free press come to mind these days. With a significant number of journalists attacked in, among other countries, Russia, just in the past few months, we clearly see the...
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Beware the Context - Deliberation for Development II
Earlier this month, CommGAP hosted a conference on "Deliberation for Development: New Directions." The meeting was headed by the World Bank's Vijayendra Rao and Patrick Heller from Brown University and...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.ICT WorksThe Choice Between Facebook and Running Water Isn’t Obvious"Over the past several years two...
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Weekly Wire: the Global Forum
These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.‘Women Should Be Submissive', and Other Google Autocomplete SuggestionsGlobal Voices“A series of ads...
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Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
In his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Experts, Bill Easterly uses his rhetorical gifts to make the case for ‘free development’. In so doing, he takes his trademark blend of insight and relentlessness to a...
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A global movement against corruption: It is happening now!
Also available in: Español | Français | العربيةTaking note of headline news in recent weeks, one cannot escape the reality that efforts to fighting corruption are succeeding. A decade ago, success was...
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Blog Post of the Month: Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
Each month People, Spaces, Deliberation shares the blog post that generated the most interest and discussion. In October 2015, the featured blog post is "Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient...
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#9 from 2015: A global movement against corruption: It is happening now!
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2015. This post was originally posted on October 26, 2015.Also available in: Español | Français | العربيةTaking note of headline news in recent weeks, one cannot...
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Corruption in fragile states: A panel discussion on the intersections of...
Corruption is a global threat to development and democratic rule. It diverts public resources to private interests, leaving fewer resources to build schools, hospitals, roads and other public...
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#4 from 2015: Bill Easterly and the denial of inconvenient truths
Our Top Ten blog posts by readership in 2015. This post was originally posted on October 22, 2015. It was also the blog post of the month for October 2015. In his 2014 book, The Tyranny of Experts,...
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International organizations tip the scale towards integrity
Over the last year, we have reached several noteworthy milestones in the global fight against corruption. In the arena of fighting corruption in international development, two important milestones...
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Learning the lessons of land protection from Africa’s justice advocates
Rural communities across Africa face a variety of threats to their customary and indigenous land and natural resource claims. The drivers of these threats are diverse: increasing foreign investment,...
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The anti-corruption agenda is in danger of forgetting its principal asset: An...
Sitting in a large, rain pattered, tent in the grounds of Marlborough House in London last week, I had to admit to a mixture of frustration and admiration. Admirably hosted by the Commonwealth...
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