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TI Working Papers
Working Papers (WPs) reflect TI’s ongoing work on its five global priorities and address other key anti-corruption issues. They profile innovative and succinct perspectives and highlight areas for follow-up action.
WPs are intended for a broad audience including the TI Movement, relevant CSOs, companies, governments, journalists and academics. Leading experts and partners in combating corruption — including TI national chapters — are often invited to guest author papers.
WPs form part of TI’s Working Paper and Policy Position series and are produced in coordination with the Policy and Research Department. Unlike Policy Positions, they do not set out a specific TI stance but rather focus on lessons learned in crafting effective policy responses. All are available electronically, as a hard copy and in English, French and/or Spanish.
TI Working Papers are developed according to these guidelines.
Working Paper No 04/2011: Corruption in the Land Sector
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Unprecedented pressures on land and its governance have been created. As evident around the globe, where land governance is deficient, high levels of corruption often flourish. Under such a system, land distribution is unequal, tenure is insecure, and natural resources are poorly managed. |
Working Paper No 03/2011: Corruption and Human Trafficking
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Human trafficking is sought to affect more than 12 million victims around the world. Corruption is seen as facilitating this flow of people and feeding the impunity that prevents the prosecution of those involved. |
Working Paper No 02/2011 and No 01/2009: Recovering stolen assets: A problem of scope and dimension
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Both developed and developing nations are responsible for stealing assets, sidelining initiatives to repatriate them and profiting from corruption. Ending this complicity is urgent. ´ |
Working Paper No. 01/2011: Reducing demand for illegal timber: Targeting corruption in customs and procurement
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Illegal timber finds its way into the consumer markets. A crucial aspect of stemming the flow of and demand for illegal timber is improving customs and procurement regulations in importing countries. |
Working Paper No 07/2010: Timber Trafficking and Laundering: An Anti-Corruption Approach
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Timber trafficking is a trans-national problem. The high profits involved in the illegal timber trade provide incentives for smugglers to launder illegal timber for sale on international markets. This paper argues how an anti-corruption approach to the problem may help to finally break the trafficking chain. |
Working Paper No. 06/2010: Regulating the Revolving Door
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The increased interaction between business and government – as result of privatisations, lobbying and public contracting - has meant increased opportunities for corruption. Conflicts of interest, and the ‘revolving door’ phenomenon that has arisen, need to be better prevented and regulated. |
Working Paper No. 05/2010: Corruption and Public Procurement
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Public procurement impacts people’s lives and accounts for a big share government budgets. The large monetary transactions involved make the risk of abuse high and the need for anti-corruption safeguards essential. |
Working Paper No. 04/2010: After the Conflict: Nation- Building and Corruption
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Globally, there are 26 ongoing armed conflicts and nearly one sixth of the world’s population lives in so-called ‘weak governance’ zones. |
Working Paper No. 03/2010: Corruption in Logging Licenses & Concessions
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Corruption is one of the main drivers of illegal logging. It runs through the whole timber production and marketing chain. |
Working Paper No. 02/2010: Corruption and Gender in Service Delivery: The Unequal Impacts
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Corruption in the provision of basic services can have disproportionate and negative consequences for women and girls, compromising their own empowerment as well as the gender equality and development of their country. |
Working Paper No 01/2010: Corporate Responsibility & Anti-Corruption: the Missing Link?
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At their best, corporate responsibility initiatives are an attempt to address the great environmental, social and ethical challenges of our times. As these programmes continue to evolve, the challenge for the anti-corruption movement is determining the appropriate place for anti-corruption efforts and whether — and how — they can support a company’s corporate responsibility strategy. |
Working Paper No. 07/2009: Making Government Anti-Corruption Hotlines Effective
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Anti-corruption hotlines are being valued as a channel for citizen redress and to cross-check whether campaign pledges and government promises are producing results. Yet their success is dependent on a number of operational, administrative, institutional and political factors – which examples from Azerbaijan, Czech Republic, Kenya and Moldova help us to explore. |
Working Paper No. 06/2009: Youth and Corruption
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Integrity, like corruption, is learned. Unfortunately, in many countries corruption has been tolerated for generations. Young people have the potential to transform this present reality and end corruption. |
Working Paper No. 05/2009: Corruption and Local Government
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In their daily lives, citizens tend to have close contact with local agencies. This proximity to the people and the discretion that local officials have can make local government highly vulnerable to corruption. Experiences from Liberia, Peru, Slovakia and South Korea are profiled to show how stakeholder collaboration can aid in designing effective local initiatives to combat corruption. |
Working Paper No.03/2009: Corruption and Sport: Building Integrity and Preventing Abuses
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From match-fixing to construction kickbacks, the sporting world has seen a string of corruption scandals. Yet many sports organisations have not yet dealt properly with the problem of corruption and sport. |
Working Paper No. 02/2009: Corruption in the MENA region
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The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have primarily focused on public institutions and laws without addressing the roots of the problem. |
Working Paper No. 05/2008: Human Rights and Corruption
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Although international anti-corruption and human rights regimes can run parallel agendas, they are rooted in the same principles. These commonalities suggest there are many actions and activities where both could better compliment each other. |
Working Paper No. 04/2008: Corruption and (In)security
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Both anti-corruption approaches and security policies need to address linkages between them and look at the broader context that has created a web of security risks — within and outside national boundaries. |
Working Paper No. 03/2008: Using the OECD Guidelines to Tackle Corporate Corruption
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The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provide a set of corrupt accountability standards that offer great potential for civil society to effectively combat private sector corruption. |
Working Paper No. 02/2008: Poverty and Corruption
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Across different country contexts, corruption has been a cause and consequence of poverty. Yet donors and governments still treat poverty and corruption as separate — rather than integral — components of the same strategy, which has undermined the fight against both these obstacles to development. |
Working Paper No. 01/2008: Accountability and Transparency in Political Finance
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Both developed and developing nations are responsible for stealing assets, sidelining initiatives to repatriate them and profiting from corruption. Ending this complicity is urgent.´ |
Working Paper No. 04/2007:Corruption in the Education Sector
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In corrupt education systems, students do not acquire the skills and knowledge needed to contribute meaningfully to their country's economy and society. They learn from a young age that a lack of integrity is an acceptable way of life. |
Working Paper No. 03/2007: Gender and Corruption
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Women impact on, and are affected by, corruption. Anti-corruption policies need to address these gender implications if successful interventions are to result. |
Working Paper No. 02/2007: Addressing Corruption and Building Integrity in Defence Establishments
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Global defence is a big business, with expenditures exceeding more than US $1 trillion. Yet the defence establishment has historically been one of the least transparent of any government organisation. |
Working Paper No. 01/2007: Corruption and Renewable Natural Resources
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Corruption is a key contributor to the degradation of renewable natural resources. Poor governance may translate into sub-standard environmental policies and, in extreme cases, the wholesale plunder of a country's natural resources. |
Working Paper No. 03/2006: Humanitarian Aid and Corruption
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Humanitarian aid is at risk from corruption. Lessons learned provide ideas for policies to minimise these risks and offer guidance for the many organisations engaged on this issue. |
Working Paper No. 02/2006: Corruption and HIV/AIDS
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While the corruption that affects HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment is similar to others in the health sector, the scale of the pandemic, high drug costs, and numerous new agencies increase the opportunities for breakdowns |
Working Paper No. 01/2006: Corruption and Paying for Healthcare
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Every year, the world spends more than US $3.1 trillion on health services. However, growing evidence indicates that corruption results in significant losses and denial of good quality health services to millions of people. |
