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March 2007

interview of the month

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University

Jeffrey D. Sachs, the world renowned anti-poverty economist, is a travelling campaigner with a head full of figures and solutions. The former advisor to governments, now director of the Earth institute, has been a strong advocate of increasing aid to the developing world. Transparency Watch caught up with Prof. Sachs during his recent visit to Berlin and questioned him on governance and corruption. >> read more

spotlight story

Corruption and non-violent youth movements: stories from Serbia and Georgia

In the past ten years, youth movements in Eastern Europe have been instrumental in organising citizen resistance to oppressive regimes. These youth movements have had two principal similarities. First, they have committed to using non-violent tactics and focusing instead on designing creative ways of marketing their message. Second, they have used the adverse affects of corruption on people’s lives in their messages to motivate them to become actively engaged. >> read more

Anti-Corruption Work Around the World

corruption in the news

According to the Zambian Auditor-General’s report, about K348,244 billion worth of public money is either misappropriated, stolen or grossly mismanaged every year in Zambia. >> read more

A new TI contact group in the Ukraine takes on election monitoring, political party financing, public procurement monitoring and research, and increases its awareness raising effort. >> read more

Recent TI Caracas conference dealt with the developments and failures of the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption and identified major challenges to its implementation in the next 10 years. >> read more

A crackdown on corruption by Bangladesh's new interim government has led to the arrests of over 30 high level politicians, lawmakers and businessmen. >> read more

Israel's newly appointed police chief was previously suspended from the police force for bribe-taking. >> read more

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development blacklists Lahmeyer for corruption on a World Bank project. >> read more

News from the Anti-Corruption Movement
Reports from Transparency International’s national chapters, members and Secretariat. Click here to read this month's highlights. >> read more

Corruption in Quotes
"The local police are worse than us at taking bribes… every officer from the highest to the lowest is doing their best to take bribes''. >> read more