Global Britain: Enabling Kleptocracy?
Researchers John Heathershaw and Tom Mayne describe how the UK may be failing to enforce laws designed to stop illicit financial flows and “foreign dark money” from entering the country.
Why do people set up offshore shell companies? Some preliminary findings from the Panama and Paradise Papers
GI ACE researcher Dan Haberly analyses the structure behind offshore shell company formation.
From Lab to Online Research: a Transition Full of Challenges
GI-ACE researcher Thorsten Chmura discussed focus of research on transnational corruption in international business, pushing the boundaries of citizen science.
Anti-corruption in Aid-funded Procurement: Whacking the Mole is Not Enough
GI-ACE researchers Liz Dávid-Barrett and Mihály Fazekas use big data analysis from a recent World Bank procurement reform dataset to show how corruption is a moving target.
Are Promised Changes to Nigeria’s Anti-corruption Architecture Built On Sand?
GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses commitments that appeared to address two recent criticisms made of Nigeria’s anti-corruption regime – overlapping mandates and lack of inter-agency cooperation – that had been identified by various authors in recent years
From a Surrey mansion to an Uzbek prison: Revisiting the case of Gulnara Karimova
GI-ACE researcher Tom Mayne discusses project investigating laundering of monies and reputations by professional enablers for African and Central Asian elites.
The Gendered Nature of Corruption: A Case Study on Small-Scale Cross Border Trade in Kenya
One year further into its GI ACE-supported research concerning the role of integrity and corruption within the planning profession in Zambia and South Africa, the African Centre for Cities’ “Cities of Integrity” (COI) research team has hit new milestones and made progress in achieving its research objectives.
Mapping Politically Exposed Person (PEP)-linked shell companies in the Panama and Paradise Papers
GI ACE researcher Dan Haberly analyses the changing international regulatory landscape has impacted shell company use since the turn of the millennium.
Bribery, gift-giving and social norms: understanding corruption in the Tanzanian health sector
GI ACE researcher Claudia Baez Camargo investigates the social norm of gift-giving in the Tanzanian health sector.
Making records open does not always make them useful
GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses the issue of increasing the transparency of beneficial ownership, with Nigeria as a prime example.