Imagine billions of dollars siphoned from public funds – money meant to build schools, hospitals and infrastructure – vanishing into a web of offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.

Public procurement – the government purchase of goods, services and works – accounts for a substantial portion of public spending in most countries. It is not only a crucial component of public ...

Public procurement, the process through which governments purchase goods and services from private companies, is an essential mechanism for effective governance and the public good, from ...

Imagine reporting serious misconduct at work, expecting justice, and instead losing your job. That’s exactly what happened to Jan Benýšek, the head of the insolvency division at the Czech Ministry of ...

This year was the biggest election year in history. Around 2 billion people – close to a quarter of the world's population – cast their votes worldwide. Although elections were largely free and fair, ...

Corruption is a scourge that hurts ordinary people every day across the Americas. And when they speak out about it, far too often they face retaliation. Almost two thirds of people that we surveyed ...

Three years on: Are whistleblowers any safer in the EU?

Have you paid a bribe? Has corruption increased in your country? Is your government effectively tackling corruption? You have an opinion and that’s what we want the world to hear. Since its debut in ...

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Cases of corruption rarely seem to be out of the news in Latin America and the Caribbean. Just in the last few years alone, several high profile cases have sent shockwaves through the region. However, ...

The 10th edition of the Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa, reveals that while most people in Africa feel corruption increased in their country, a majority also feel optimistic that they, as ...

There was no global convention aimed at curbing corruption, and no way to measure corruption or its impact at the global scale. In the early 1990s, corruption was a taboo topic. Many companies ...