Corruption isn’t a new issue for business communities around the world. What’s new is increasing discussion about how it might be stopped.
As one of many signs of growing debate, in September 2010 the Wall Street Journal launched its Corruption Currents blog, providing news, analysis, and commentary from the ever-changing world of corporate corruption. On the CIPE Development Blog, corruption and its discontents have also been turning up the volume. Here are a few highlights from the past year’s posts on corruption:
- Fresh from a February trip to Bhutan, Brooke Millis documents perceptions about petty corruption and momentum behind efforts to mitigate it in the tiny country wedged between India and China.
- Taking us on a tour of local governance mechanisms in Afghanistan, Michael Hendrix illustrates how corrupt and dysfunctional governance makes the Taliban attractive as an alternative.
- In arguing to “Cage the Destructive Beast,” Dorothy Smith uses examples from CIPE’s documentary on corruption in Yemen to show that there is much hope for the country.
- Andrew Wilson reports on the testing and launch of a new tool for fighting corruption in Russia by examining ‘the reality gap‘ between laws and implementation.
- On the eve of the 14th International Anti-Corruption Conference in November, CEOs from 27 Thai firms got on stage to become the first to sign-on to a collective action pledge to fight corruption in their country, and John Morrell was there for the occasion.
Published Date: December 29, 2010