Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ángel Páez LIMA, Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) – The Peruvian government will try to track down funds hidden away by former officials of the Alberto Fujimori regime (1990-2000) and others sentenced for corruption. The aim is to recover 323 million dollars — the total amount that the [...]
Q&A: ‘Corruption is an Extraordinary Danger’
August 17, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Patricia Grogg interviews Cuban political scientist ESTEBAN MORALES HAVANA, Aug 16 (IPS) – ”I still view corruption as an extraordinary danger” to the country, as its ”corrosive power” makes it a matter of ”national security,” said Esteban Morales, who was expelled from the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) after [...]
PERU:: Transparency a Challenge for Mining and Oil
August 8, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Milagros Salazar* – Tierramérica LIMA, Aug 8 (IPS) – Peru is the only Latin American country that has made steps towards joining the international Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), but has a difficult stretch ahead as it tries to overcome industry resistance to reporting profits and the government’s [...]
Canada and 19 Others Yet to Ban Foreign Bribery
August 2, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Erna Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) – Countries representing more than half of world exports have taken appropriate action in the last six years to combat corruption and enforced a ban on foreign bribery. But 20 countries have yet to put into effect the convention. These include [...]
Bribery Will Eat into Gains of East African Integration
July 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis NAIROBI (IDN) – A new report has warned that unless bribery is banned, 126 million citizens of the East African Community will be deprived of the benefits that economic integration promises to bring in its wake. These words of caution stem from the [...]
PERU: President Admits Corruption Has Tarnished Government
July 30, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Ángel Páez LIMA, Jul 29 (IPS) – In his Independence Day speech in the Peruvian Congress, which was broadcast nationwide, President Alan García admitted that corruption has tarnished his administration, although he lectured the judicial branch for delays in punishing those responsible. The president, who is entering his [...]
South Africa Seen Not Doing Enough to Combat Bribery
July 22, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepthNewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) – Criticising South Africa for its failure to combat corruption in international business deals, a new report is asking the country to intensify its efforts to detect, investigate and prosecute cases of foreign bribery. In the context of its regular cycle of [...]
Civil Society Hails New Oil and Mining Transparency Standards
July 16, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Jim Lobe* WASHINGTON, Jul 15, 2010 (IPS) – National and international civil society groups Thursday hailed the U.S. Senate’s passage of a major financial reform act that includes a key anti-corruption provision requiring energy and mining companies to publicly disclose payments they make to governments around the [...]
UN Worried about West Africa
July 11, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Nirode Masson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis GENEVA (IDN) – The United Nations is at a loss in West Africa. On the one hand, it is confronted with the resurgence of military coups, accompanied by paucity of good governance. On the other, deadly flooding, following on the heels of acute [...]
Global Governance Reform Needs More Than Lip Service
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Shada Islam* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint BRUSSELS (IDN) – Two years ago at their meeting in Beijing, Asian and European leaders vowed joint action to rebuild the battered global economy. “We swim together, or we sink together,” European Commission President José Manuel Barroso told the ASEM summit. Can that [...]