Corruption

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CGD NOTES
A Note on the Informal Sector
Anna Diofasi et al.
April 25, 2017
This work analyzes fresh data made available by updated, more comprehensive Enterprise Surveys of formal firms of various sizes and, importantly, of informal firms. It concentrates on five countries (the DRC, Ghana, Kenya, Myanmar, and Rwanda) to provide more fine-grained insights into differences i...
Blog Post
A No More Tiers Formula to Clean Up Corruption
Charles Kenny
April 18, 2017
A bipartisan group of eight Senators led by Senate Foreign Relations Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-MD) has just reintroduced a new version of a bill designed to identify and combat corruption overseas. The Combating Global Corruption Act of 2017 ties some potentially useful anti-corruption measures t...
Blog Post
Liberians’ Eagerness for Debate Can Bode Well for Accountable Leadership
Antoinette Monsio Sayeh
March 29, 2017
At the Liberia Development Conference, I laid out four interlinked themes vital to Liberia’s future development progress and to pose questions for conference participants, including what Liberia’s development partners can do to leverage their support with stronger Liberian ownership and ...
Blog Post
How Much Aid is Really Lost to Corruption?
Charles Kenny
January 23, 2017
One of the questions reportedly from the Presidential transition team to the State Department was: “With so much corruption in Africa, how much of our funding is stolen?” During the nomination hearings for Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State, Senator Rand Paul&nbsp...
Blog Post
Accounting for the Corruption that Counts at the MCC
Charles Kenny
December 14, 2016
There’s a lot to be said for good data sense, and one way the Millennium Challenge Corporation could demonstrate such sense next year is to replace their current corruption measure with a better one: surveyed evidence of bribes paid.
Blog Post
How the US and UK Can Help Ordinary Zimbabweans without Helping their Government
Todd Moss
December 08, 2016
How can countries with a strong history and connection to that beleaguered country help its people while not entrenching its kleptocratic leadership? Between the “lend and hope” strategy and the “isolate and wait” approach, what could the international community do to prevent...
Multimedia
Britain's Aid Budget: Money Well Spent?
November 29, 2016
Today we present a slightly unusual edition of the CGD Podcast. We are bringing you highlights of an excellent discussion held at CGD's offices in London which involved, among others, CGD’s Owen Barder. It was a special edition of the Radio 4 program The World Tonight, organized and b...