Corruption

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POLICY PAPERS
Anti-Corruption Strategies in Foreign Aid: From Controls to Results
William Savedoff
March 20, 2016
Corruption is an obstacle to social and economic progress in developing countries yet we still know very little about the effectiveness of anti-corruption efforts and their impact on development impact. This essay looks at 25 years of efforts by foreign aid agencies to combat corruption and proposes...
Blog Post
Pretending at Evidence-Based Policymaking?
Charles Kenny
September 25, 2015
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is a model aid agency in a lot of ways, one of which is its commitment to learning from experience and evidence on what works and what doesn’t when it comes to development programs. Despite that, it still has an egregiously flawed way to deal with the risk ...
WORKING PAPERS
Corruption and Averting AIDS Deaths - Working Paper 395
Willa Friedman
February 25, 2015
This paper looks at the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of antiretroviral drugs in preventing AIDS deaths and the potential channels that generate this relationship. 
Blog Post
#Luxleaks: The Reality of Tax ‘Competition’
Alex Cobham
December 16, 2014
Aside from lurid revelations about individual companies and the big four accounting firms, the leaks of multinationals’ tax deals with Luxembourg confirm­—and expose to a wider audience­—the true nature of the tax ‘competition’ that prevents the emergence of eff...
Blog Post
CRomnibus Analysis – 8 Takeaways from FY15 SFOPS Appropriations
Beth Schwanke
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Erin Collinson
December 15, 2014
Blog Post
How to Tell If the G-20 Is Still Serious about Tax and Corruption
Alex Cobham
November 11, 2014
Last years’ G-20 and G-8 meetings produced important commitments to bolster tax systems and to fight corruption. The upcoming G-20 meeting in Brisbane will show just how serious member countries are about delivering on them.
Blog Post
Not a Treat: The UK Aid Impact Commission’s Report on DFID’s Anticorruption Activities
Charles Kenny
October 31, 2014
Yesterday I was excited to see that the UK Independent Commission for Aid Impact (ICAI) had a report out on UK Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) anticorruption activities. It was a great topic for independent analysis by a group that didn’t need to worry about the...