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Selection of blogs on corruption from the Kaufmann Governance Post
Daniel Kaufmann is a senior researcher on global economy and development at the Brookings Institution in the United States. Until November 2008, he led the work on governance and anti-corruption at the World Bank Institute. TrustLaw has summarised some of Kaufmann's recent blogs from The Kaufmann Governance Post, highlighting mentions of corruption.
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Pregnancy in a time of crisis: Portraits of women in the Feregana Valley of Kyrgyzstan
Maha Muna is a humanitarian specialist with UNFPA's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Regional Office and she wrote this after a recent trip to Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK - When the fighting began in Osh and later spread to Jalabad (two cities in the Feregana Valley
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Irrigating Africa as the rains become unreliable
You might not think irrigation would be a good way to boost production on sub-Saharan Africa's chronically underperforming farms. After all, many parts of the region, particularly the south, are expected to see drying weather and worsening droughts as clim
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How to make an expanding aid sector more professional?
In the aftermath of January's devastating quake in Haiti, large numbers of do-gooders rushed in to help survivors who'd lost homes and family members in the disaster. But their presence wasn't entirely welcomed by the more established aid community, which
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Afghanistan's most valuable resource for peace? Its women
As attention turns to the July 20 donor conference in Kabul, the international community must recognise that lithium and cobalt aren't the most important resources to be tapped in returning peace and prosperity to Afghanistan. Women are the key. Too often
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Will aid agencies get better at learning lessons after Haiti quake?
Anyone who's read the leaked email from U.N. aid chief John Holmes criticising the humanitarian response a month after January's devastating earthquake in Haiti won't be surprised to find a hint of frustration in his foreword to a new report on the lessons
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A painful look back at Copenhagen
The International Institute for Environment and Development is promoting a documentary that it says "provides a revealing insight into the way international diplomacy can become an intricate game" that potentially threatens millions of the world's poorest
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Do your foreign agents hold secrets?
Steven Fox is the managing partner of Veracity Worldwide, an external risk advisory firm that focuses on emerging markets. David Matesanz is a project manager at the same company, focusing on anti-corruption matters. Based in New York with offices in Singapore, New Delhi, Johannesburg, Moscow, and London, Veracity advises some of the world's leading companies on corruption and other risk issues. Veracity also works closely with top-tier law firms to investigate allegations of corruption.
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HAVE YOUR SAY: Will the new U.N. aid chief do a good job?
LONDON (AlertNet) - Britain's envoy to Australia Valerie Amos, who is due to take over as the United Nations' new aid chief, is different from the man she will replace in more ways than one. Amos, 56, was born in Guyana and has served as Britain's secretar
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Haiti six months after the quake
Why tackling Haiti's dire sanitation with investment and innovation is critical What happens when one of the world's most fragile water and sanitation systems is hit by a 7.0 earthquake? One and a half million more people lose access to safe drinking water
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