Oil: ‘Mother of corruption’ in Venezuela
Corruption in Venezuela’s oil industry is a many-headed monster that has devoured billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money in the past 20 years, experts say. Long the country’s only notable…
Breaking the chain of corruption — Part – I
Anti-corruption measures can only have cumulative success if they are part and parcel of good governance. In the absence of good governance, anti-corruption measures cannot develop any longer-term momentum even…
Breaking the chain of corruption: Part – II
The late prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, largely eliminated corruption from Singapore and thereby transformed it from a third-world to a first-world country. The following are some Yew…
Xi’s corruption crackdown targets embattled finance sector
Xi Jinping’s crackdown on official corruption has ripped through a secretive missile force, the Communist Party elite, the national football team, and now risks hammering a finance industry already grappling…
The corruption challenge
The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) issued regulations granting banks access to asset declarations of high-level federal civil servants for purposes of AML/CFT compliance of customer due diligence in February…
Global crackdown on corruption?
The powerful banking network, real estate market and businesses of the flourishing economies of the west have long been criticized for providing safe havens to ease into their system ill-gotten…
Corruption, wealth and vengeance
There is no acceptable form of indigenously acquired wealth in Pakistan. If you were born wealthy, then obviously your ancestors were bootlickers of the British. And if you have become…
Corruption in Central America frustrates US plan to tackle migration ‘root causes’
More than a year into US President Joe Biden’s sweeping effort to tackle the “root causes” of migration with aid to Central America, projects likely worth millions of dollars have…
Corruption-poverty nexus
Goal 16 of the UN's sustainable development goals (SDGs) makes the case that fighting corruption is at the heart of delivering a better world. Transparency International (IT), according to its…
Unbundling corruption’
Generally, white collar crimes are difficult to solve. In fact, it becomes almost an insurmountable challenge when one tries to prove these cases beyond a shadow of doubt in a…
