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Time for accountability: Assessment of the G8's fight against corruption: 2008 G8 progress report: authored and compiled by Transparency International's G8 National Chapters

TI national chapters in the G8 countries reviewed the Leaders' commitments since 2002 with respect to reducing corruption, assessed progress implementing those commitments and concluded that performance falls short with profound adverse consequences...

Transparency International

Berlin, Transparency International, 2008
Human rights and corruption

Corruption is the cause and core of many human rights violations. Among countries, there is a generalised trend of systemic corruption coexisting with an institutionalised failure to respect human rights. The three countries where perceived...

Transparency International

Berlin, Transparency International, 2008
Public expenditure tracking of secondary education bursary fund in Nairobi Province, Kenya

The secondary schools bursary scheme was introduced by the Government in the 1993/1994 financial year to enhance access, ensure retention, and reduce disparities and inequalities in the provision of secondary school education. In particular, the...

Oyugi, Lineth N., Riechi, Andrew R., Anupi, Evelyn

Nairobi, IPAR, 2008
Open budgets, transform lives: the Open Budget Survey 2008

The Open Budget Survey 2008, a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries, finds that the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. This encourages inappropriate, wasteful, and corrupt spending and-because it...

International Budget Partnership

Washington, D.C., International Budget Partnership, 2008
Our money, our responsibility: a citizens' guide to monitoring government expenditures

This Guide reflects the growing focus of civil society organizations on monitoring the results achieved by government expenditures. It offers an overview of government budget implementation, including budget execution, procurement, impact measurement...

Ramkumar, Vivek

Washington, D.C., The International Budget Project, 2008
Poverty and corruption

The year 2007 marked a milestone in the fight against poverty and corruption. It represented the midway point on the road to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the ambitious global pledge to end extreme poverty by 2015. It also...

Transparency International

Berlin, Transparency International, 2008
Need and greed: corruption risks, perceptions and prevention in humanitarian assistance

Humanitarian assistance injects valuable resources into resource-poor and often insecure contexts with high levels of need. The complexity of humanitarian operations and their rapidly increasing budgets make addressing corruption and the taboos...

Bailey, Sarah

London, ODI, 2008
Transparency International's 2008 CPI: persistently high corruption in low-income countries amounts to an "ongoing humanitarian disaster"

28.09.2008

Press

- DG Communities

Transparency International's 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) highlights the fatal link between poverty, failed institutions and graft. But other notable backsliders in the 2008 CPI indicate that the strength of oversight mechanisms is also at risk among the wealthiest. In low-income countries, rampant corruption jeopardizes the global fight against poverty, threatening to derail the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). According to TI's 2008 Global Corruption Report, unchecked levels of corruption would add US $50 billion (€35 billion) - or nearly half of annual global aid outlays – to the cost of achieving the MDG on water and sanitation.
Deregulation of higher education

11.10.2008 Indonesia

Press

David Jardine - University World News

The Ministry of National Education of Indonesia proposed a bill to further deregulate the Nation's universities. But the privatization of leading universities will lead, according to the Indonesia Corruption Watch, to the exclusion of the children from less well-off families. The high costs of university entrance and passage in the way have indeed tended to either reduce or eliminate students from the poorer provinces of Indonesia. Major corruption cases break out in Indonesia on a regular basis and there is strong evidence that higher university tuition fees increased corruption in the sector.
Corruption and human rights: making the connection

What impact does corruption have on enjoyment of human rights, including economic, social and cultural rights? When can human rights principles and tools help to curb and prevent corruption? In recent years, governments, NGOs and international...

International Council on Human Rights Policy, Transparency International

Geneva, ICHRP, 2009

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