Publications

Public-private partnerships for financial information sharing (FISPs) have rapidly proliferated as a means to counter illicit finance and corruption by facilitating voluntary information exchange beyond standard reporting, though their effectiveness is tempered by concerns over data protection and potential conflicts between public and private interests.

Pervasive corruption in Vietnam continues to undermine its economic development and impede progress toward its climate change mitigation goals, despite the government's highly publicised "burning furnace" anti-corruption campaign.

Bilateral donors and multilateral agencies can significantly increase the impact of their health aid by directly tackling corruption.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly being adopted in anti-corruption efforts, enhancing prevention through predictive analytics and improving detection via advanced data and image analysis. However, its effective deployment introduces challenges related to data quality, model transparency, and privacy.

Donors can curb corruption risks with multilateral organisations by enhancing framework agreements and working together to build coalitions, align standards, and strengthen monitoring.

Evidence links political finance to climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, and reform efforts are emerging – such as civil society monitoring, international transparency initiatives, and national advocacy campaigns.

Opportunities for intervention include stronger disclosure systems, reform of the Mining Cadastre, support for policymaking and artisanal mining, improved civil society discourse, better agency collaboration, and more.

Some national courts are framing corruption as a human rights issue, raising prospects for a stand-alone right that could expand accountability and victim protections.

Acknowledging significant corruption risks like bribery and embezzlement in their secondary and tertiary education systems, Central Asian governments have committed to addressing these issues through various mitigation measures.

Ecuador has introduced new integrity policies to curb corruption risks in public administration, but their implementation remains largely untested.