Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Kanya D’Almeida NEW YORK, Jan 21, 2012 (IPS) – In most mainstream media the words "corruption" and "election fraud" accompany images of makeshift polling stations manned by armed guards in Burma or burning tires beside tattered ballot boxes in South Sudan – the insidiousness of stolen elections [...]
AN ANTI-CORRUPTION AYATOLLAH
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN One has reasons to be gratified and at the same time concerned over the direction the national anti-corruption movement led and galvanised by social activist Anna Hazare has been taking since it was launched three days ago from Jantar Mantar in New Delhi. 2. It has shaken up the [...]
CORRUPTION-INDIA: Gandhian Movement Pushes Ombudsman Law
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Ranjit Devraj NEW DELHI, Apr 7, 2011 (IPS) – Seeing the bespectacled old man fasting in protest against corruption in the bustling heart of the Indian capital, many are reminded of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who used ‘moral power’ to lead India to independence from British colonial [...]
CORRUPTION: Post-Mubarak Egypt Probes Public Land Contracts
March 31, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Emad Mekay CAIRO, Mar 30, 2011 (IPS) – Egyptian authorities have opened dozens of criminal investigations into hundreds of millions of dollars worth of public land contracts that were awarded illegally to real estate developers associated with former President Hosni Mubarak without proper procedures at below market [...]
Despite Reforms, Whistleblowers at Development Banks Face Retaliation
March 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Charles Davis WASHINGTON, Mar 8, 2011 (IPS) – Multilateral lending institutions – like the governments they serve – are ostensibly committed to the values of transparency and accountability. But more often than not, insiders who blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse at institutions like the [...]
Medicine Alliance Fighting Corruption in Zambia
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Aston Mwila Kuseka LUSAKA, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – "I had always associated corruption with politics and business," laments Chalwe Kabwesha. "When I failed to access ARVs and TB drugs at our clinic because of corruption, I got worried." The 68-year old Kabwesha is a retired civil [...]
MEDIA-DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: A Bad Case of Quid Pro Quo
March 7, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Elizabeth Eames Roebling SANTO DOMINGO, Mar 7, 2011 (IPS) – At first glance, the Dominican Republic appears to be a bastion of free information, with seven print dailies and seven national television stations. But journalists here say that more subtle means of coercion have become the norm. [...]
Q&A: Fossil Fuel Lobby Following the Playbook of Big Tobacco
March 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Stephen Leahy interviews environmental economist ROBERT REPETTO UXBRIDGE, Canada, Mar 2, 2011 (IPS) – Powerful fossil energy interests are preventing the United States from making the necessary transition to 21st century energy sources, one of the country’s leading environmental economists documents in a just-published book. Fossil energy interests [...]
B.RAMAN – CASH FOR VOTES: MY THOUGHTS ON WIKILEAKS DISCLOSURE
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy B.RAMAN This article is based on my reading of the report on the subject carried by “The Hindu” on March 17,2011, the analysis by Sheela Bhatt, Delhi-based Editor of Rediff.com, carried by Rediff the same day and the scintillating debate on the subject anchored by Barkha Dutt from 9 to [...]