Raymond Baker, head of Global Financial Integrity, discusses how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds-transfer pricing, false documentation, fake corporations, secrecy jurisdictions, and other tricks -and how these negatively affect developing countries.

While once considered solely a concern of law enforcement agencies; money laundering, tax evasion and secrecy jurisdictions are now perceived ...

The Uganda High Court has an Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) with original jurisdiction over all corruption and related cases. The main rationale ...

The main goal of the research project is to understand the consequences of the legal regime India has adopted to protect its indigenous peoples ...

Corruption and illegal trafficking endanger the world’s biodiversity

The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre´s call for more EU action to curb corruption in non-EU partner countries hit a European nerve.

This study seeks to assess the formal provisions of the law regulating the appointment and conditions of service of judges across eleven legal ...

Theories of democratic decentralisation in democratising states suggest that such reforms will provide significant opportunities for parties ...

Why do courts hold political power-holders accountable in some democratic and democratizing countries, but not in others?  And, why do ...

The full potential of anti-money laundering regimes (AML) as an anti-corruption tool is yet to be realised. At the international level, AML ...

This thesis enquires into the policy consequences of the Mendoza case, a public interest litigation case in Argentina, in which several ...

Citizens of countries with a corrupt political leadership are trapped in a situation, typically characterized by increasing income differences, ...

Financial crimes such as corruption, fraud, and embezzlement generate significant profits, often at the expense of the public budget. These ...

Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, wasone of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic ...

New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ ...

The last few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these ...

Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors ...

Several African countries are among the fastest growing economies in the world. However, capital flows to tax havens are one factor ...

Financial crimes such as corruption, fraud, and embezzlement generate significant profits, often at the expense of the public budget. These ...

The Philippines' Sandiganbayan is the oldest specialised anti-corruption court in the world. Though established mainly to resolve corruption ...