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The Global Anticorruption Blog (GAB) is a forum for rigorous, vigorous, and constructive debate about corruption’s causes, consequences, and remedies.

Joined January 2014
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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Grant Walton globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Grant Walton

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Dan Hough interviews Grant Walton, Associate Professor at the Australia National University…

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Anticorruption Strategies for Small Population Countries globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Anticorruption Strategies for Small Population Countries

As I discussed in a prior post, countries with very small populations face distinct challenges when it comes to detecting and fighting corruption. In places where everyone knows everyone, personal …

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Roxana Bratu globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Elizabeth Dávid-Barrett and Roxana Bratu

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Dan Hough interviews Liz Dávid-Barrett (Professor at the University of Sussex) and Roxana Brat…

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Reforming Corporate Criminal Liability in South Africa: Deferred Prosecution Agreements globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Reforming Corporate Criminal Liability in South Africa: Deferred Prosecution Agreements

Although South African law allows corporations to be held criminally liable for the misconduct of their directors and officers, in practice holding companies liable for corruption and other crimes …

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Andrew Wedeman globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Andrew Wedeman

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Dan Hough interviews Andrew Wedeman, Professor of Political Science at Georgia State Universit…

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Comments on Sri Lanka Proposed Anticorruption Bill globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Comments on Sri Lanka Proposed Anticorruption Bill

Sri Lanka is known for the quality of its legal scholarship, and the draft anticorruption bill the government gazetted April 6 leaves little doubt the reputation is warranted. It contains many thou…

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Where Everyone Knows Everyone: The Distinct Anticorruption Challenges of Small Population Countries globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Where Everyone Knows Everyone: The Distinct Anticorruption Challenges of Small Population Countries

Compared to most of the rest of the world, Iceland has a strong reputation as a clean country. In the most recent version of Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Iceland …

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Guest Post: ComplianceNet Conference and Call for Papers globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Guest Post: ComplianceNet Conference and Call for Papers

Today’s guest post is from Professor Jonathan Rusch, the Director of the U.S. and International Anti-Corruption Law Program at the Washington College of Law at American University: On June 21…

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Cheri-Leigh Erasmus globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Cheri-Leigh Erasmus

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Dan Hough interviews Cheri-Leigh Erasmus, Global Director of Learning at the Accountability La…

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Claudia Baez Camargo globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Claudia Baez Camargo

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Liz David-Barrett interviews Claudia Baez Camargo, the Head of Public Governance at the Basel …

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The Role of Anticorruption Communications in Sustaining Integrity Reforms globalanticorruptionblog.com…

The Role of Anticorruption Communications in Sustaining Integrity Reforms

Today’s Guest Post is by Corina Rebegea, governance and anti-corruption advisor with the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Corina oversees programming on transparency, anticorruption and counter…

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Cecilia Müller Torbrand globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Cecilia Müller Torbrand

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Liz David-Barrett interviews Cecilia Müller Torbrand, the CEO of the Maritime Anti-Corruption …

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The Hidden System of Legal Kickbacks Shaping the U.S. Prescription Drug Market globalanticorruptionblog.com…

The Hidden System of Legal Kickbacks Shaping the U.S. Prescription Drug Market

In the United States, as in most other countries, it is illegal for pharmaceutical companies to bribe doctors or hospitals to prescribe their products. Those who get caught engaging in this sort of…

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FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Proposal: Invitation to Evasion globalanticorruptionblog.com…

FinCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Proposal: Invitation to Evasion

GAB welcomes this guest post by Gary Kalman, Executive Director of Transparency International U.S. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), the bureau charged with implementing our nati…

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Nearly 20 Years in Legal Limbo: Egypt’s Illicit Gains Framework globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Nearly 20 Years in Legal Limbo: Egypt’s Illicit Gains Framework

Criminal laws against “illicit enrichment” or “unexplained wealth” are among the more potent tools in the anticorruption toolbox. Though details vary across countries, typically an illicit enrichme…

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Why We Should be Afraid – Very Afraid – of Corruption in the Reconstruction of Ukraine globalanticorruptionblog.com…

Why We Should be Afraid – Very Afraid – of Corruption in the Reconstruction of Ukraine

Today’s Guest Post is from Donald Bowser. Don has worked on governance and anticorruption programs for over two decades for various donor organizations. In July he founded Support to Ukrainian Reco…

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New Podcast Episode, Featuring Luís de Sousa globalanticorruptionblog.com…

New Podcast Episode, Featuring Luís de Sousa

A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In latest episode, host Robert Barrington interviews Luís de Sousa, who serves as the the Deputy Director of the Insti…

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The Fishrot Files: Clean Countries and Fishy Business globalanticorruptionblog.com…

The Fishrot Files: Clean Countries and Fishy Business

The Nordic countries are often seen as world leaders when it comes to anticorruption, ranking at the top of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Yet critics have pointed…

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UNODC Statistical Framework to Measure Corruption: Comments Requested globalanticorruptionblog.com…

UNODC Statistical Framework to Measure Corruption: Comments Requested

Within the global anticorruption community, no topic has generated as much discussion as the measurement issue. Start with the most basic of questions. Is there an agreed upon definition of corrupt…

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The FDA Drug Approval Process Has Problems—But It Is Not Corrupt globalanticorruptionblog.com…

The FDA Drug Approval Process Has Problems—But It Is Not Corrupt

Is the US drug approval process corrupt? Many critics say that it is, leveling the charged rhetoric of corruption at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (see, for example, here, here, and here).…

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