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Implementing the illicit financial flows agenda: Perspectives from developing countries
U4 Brief | Oct 2012
While once considered solely a concern of law enforcement agencies; money laundering, tax evasion and secrecy jurisdictions are now perceived as important ...
international drivers of corruption
Specialised anti-corruption courts: Uganda
U4 Brief | Jul 2016
The Uganda High Court has an Anti-Corruption Division (ACD) with original jurisdiction over all corruption and related cases. The main rationale for its ...
anti-corruption, courts, Special Criminal Court, specialised anti-corruption bodies, justice, Uganda
Illicit financial flows and their impacts on development: A way forward
Event | 1 Oct 2010
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.
The Panama Papers and why secrecy regulations are bad for development
News | 6 Jul 2016
Secrecy regulations and lacking transparency facilitate criminal activities because it hides away evidence. People who pay bribes, trade weapons, ...
PanamaPapers, Corruption, Anti-Corruption, Taxation, Illicit financial flows, Secrecy jurisdictions, Governance, Money laundering, Political corruption, Policy coherence, Tax havens
Special anti-corruption courts: Basic choices to be made
News | 15 Dec 2016
In the ongoing struggle against corruption and related offences, many countries have established specialised anti-corruption institutions, distinct from ...
Anti-corruption courts
Malawi
Book Chapter | Jan 2006
This study seeks to assess the formal provisions of the law regulating the appointment and conditions of service of judges across eleven legal systems ...
Law, Courts, Judicial system, Africa: Malawi
International anti-money laundering laws. Improving external accountability of political leaders
U4 Brief | Aug 2010
The full potential of anti-money laundering regimes (AML) as an anti-corruption tool is yet to be realised. At the international level, AML measures can ...
international drivers of corruption, uncac
Opposition parties and the decentralisation process in South Africa and Zambia
Journal Article | Oct 2015
Theories of democratic decentralisation in democratising states suggest that such reforms will provide significant opportunities for parties in opposition ...
Opposition Parties, Decentralization, Local Governance, Elections, South Africa, Zambia
Assessing judicial performance in Indonesia: the Court for Corruption Crimes
Journal Article | Nov 2014
New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ own choice. ...
Indonesia
Social rights judgments and the politics of compliance: Making it stick
Edited Book | Feb 2017
The last few decades have witnessed an explosion of judgments on social rights around the world. However, we know little about whether these rulings have ...
Specialised anti-corruption courts: Philippines
U4 Brief | Jul 2016
The Philippines' Sandiganbayan is the oldest specialised anti-corruption court in the world. Though established mainly to resolve corruption cases more ...
anti-corruption courts, Special Criminal Court, specialised anti-corruption bodies, justice, Philippines
Do donors reduce bilateral aid to countries with restrictive NGO laws?: A panel study, 1993-2012
Journal Article | Feb 2018
Foreign aid contributes to about 10% of gross domestic product of developing countries. To distribute aid in recipient countries, Western donors increasingly ...
NGOs, civil society, foreign aid
Democracy's shortcomings in anti-corruption
CMI Working Paper | Dec 2012
Citizens of countries with a corrupt political leadership are trapped in a situation, typically characterized by increasing income differences, human ...
Anti-corruption, democracy
The role of donors in the recovery of stolen assets
U4 Issue | Dec 2014
Financial crimes such as corruption, fraud, and embezzlement generate significant profits, often at the expense of the public budget. These proceeds of ...
international drivers of corruption
The role of donors in the recovery of stolen assets
U4 Issue | Jan 2014
Financial crimes such as corruption, fraud, and embezzlement generate significant profits, often at the expense of the public budget. These proceeds of ...
international drivers of corruption
Stopping illegal trafficking of endangered species requires combatting corruption
News | 3 Sep 2015
Corruption and illegal trafficking endanger the world’s biodiversity
Informal Cross-Border Trade in Eastern Sudan A Case Study from Kassala and Gedarif States
Sudan Working Paper | Jan 2015
Informal trade in pre-colonial Africa, sometimes in the form of barter, wasone of the mechanisms of social interaction between various ethnic groupsand ...
Sudan
Beneficial openness? Weighing the costs and benefits of financial transparency
CMI Working Paper | Mar 2017
Public financial transparency is increasingly advocated as a solution to concerns over legal tax planning by multinational corporations, and illegal tax ...
tax, transparency, tax evasion, beneficial ownership, fraud, money laundering
The European Commission pledges to do more with development partners to tackle corruption
News | 2 Oct 2015
The U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre´s call for more EU action to curb corruption in non-EU partner countries hit a European nerve.
Specialised anti-corruption courts: A comparative mapping
U4 Issue | Dec 2016
Frustration with the capacity of the ordinary machinery of justice to deal adequately with corruption has prompted many countries to develop specialised ...
justice, Judiciary, Anti-corruption courts, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burundi, Cameroon, Croatia, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, Senegal, Slovakia, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda