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Unfinished business: Despite FATF money laundering list exit, UAE has much to prove

News • 23 April 2024

Addressing the Emirates’ role in facilitating cross-border corruption needs continued monitoring

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CPI 2023 for Middle East & North Africa: Dysfunctional approach to fighting corruption undermines progress

News • 30 January 2024

Loss of momentum in anti-corruption efforts is diminishing public trust, while a largely reactive approach to fighting corruption is impairing good governance.

A Yemeni man holds up a sign that reads "Circulating corruption is a greater crime than corruption itself"

CPI 2022 for Middle East & North Africa: Corruption fuels ongoing conflict

News • 31 January 2023

As corruption, authoritarianism and insecurity fuel each other, the region is in decline.

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CPI 2021 for Middle East & North Africa: Systemic corruption endangers democracy and human rights

News • 25 January 2022

The region is struggling to achieve tangible results against corruption – no country has registered a significant improvement on the CPI in the last decade. Private interests…

Illustration of money flows from a low-income country with high levels of corruption to an advanced economy

CPI 2021: Trouble at the top

News • 25 January 2022

The 2021 CPI shows that top-scoring countries’ complacency has been detrimental not only to global anti-corruption efforts but also to their own affairs.

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CPI 2020: Trouble in the top 25 countries

News • 28 January 2021

The top 25 countries on the CPI have their share of corruption challenges

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CPI 2020: Middle East & North Africa

News • 28 January 2021

The MENA region is still perceived as highly corrupt, with little progress made towards controlling corruption.

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CPI 2020: Trouble at the top – An analysis

News • 28 January 2021

The last year has again shown that no country is immune from corruption.

The United Arab Emirates: A key piece in the global money laundering puzzle

News • 11 May 2020

CPI 2019: Middle East And North Africa

News • 23 January 2020

With the same average score of 39 as last year, there is little progress in improving control of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa region. With a score of 71, the…

CPI 2019: Trouble at the top

News • 23 January 2020

Top scoring countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) like Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland are not immune to corruption. While the CPI shows these public sectors to be…

Resilient institutions

News • 12 July 2019

Reducing corruption is an important component of the sustainable development agenda, and one that all state parties have an obligation to address. Although corruption is often…

Middle East & North Africa: corruption continues as institutions and political rights weaken

News • 29 January 2019

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