Corruption control: Can the righteous and benevolent exercise of monopolized power help?
Corruption is a global menace that no country has succeeded in bringing down to zero level.
1m ago
CPI 2023: With the lowest score in 12 years, what’s next for Bangladesh?
If Bangladesh is to succeed in corruption control, impunity must be challenged, and the powerful in particular must be brought to justice.
2m ago
Corruption, zero-sum politics and democratic decline
Governments that score low in corruption indexes are more prone to use force and violence to control and suppress dissensions and protests.
4m ago
Election Commission's burden of a looming non-inclusive election
Has the EC played its due role? Or have its actions—or rather inactions—contributed to the current political crisis?
5m ago
Can a defaulter prevail over the government?
Why has no investigation taken place to explore on which grounds and for whose benefit the lion’s share of the climate fund was deposited in the Farmers Bank?
6m ago
Income Tax Act 2023: Yet another mortal blow to ACC
This is not the first time that the ACC’s authority in the key areas of its mandate have been tactfully curtailed.
10m ago
Our anti-corruption capacity is hostage to power
Positions of power acquired through various means have long been allowed to be treated as a licence for self-enrichment through various illicit means.
1y ago
IMF’s conditions on governance and corruption - rhetoric or reality?
The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.
1y ago
January 26, 2022
Disappointing CPI score: What trajectory is Bangladesh on?
The Transparency International (TI) released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2021 on January 25, 2022.
December 20, 2021
Can illicit financial transfers be controlled?
According to the latest report of the US-based NGO Global Financial Integrity (GFI) on trade-based illicit financial transfers, between 2009 and 2018, Bangladesh lost a staggering USD 8.275 billion (Tk 71,000 crore) per year, on average, through misinvoicing in export and import trade.
December 9, 2021
Expand space for accountability to control corruption
December 9 is observed as the International Anti-corruption Day (IACD). On this day in 2003, the United Nations called upon governments and peoples of the world to mark the adoption of the UN Convention against Corruption (UNCAC).
November 17, 2021
Bangladesh needs to upgrade its defence integrity structure
The Berlin-based Transparency International released its “Government Defence Integrity (GDI) Index 2020” on November 16, 2021.
February 11, 2021
Socio-political evils of corruption: Not everything is lost yet
Bangladesh is often mentioned as a development dilemma for its commendable performance in terms of GDP growth and socio-economic indicators on the one hand, that on the other, contrasts strikingly with pervasive corruption and poor performance in nearly every governance indicator.
January 29, 2021
A disappointing performance once again
On January 28, 2021, Transparency International released its Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2020. In the index, Bangladesh has scored 26 out of 100, the same as in 2019.
September 13, 2020
Political contents of corruption and anti-corruption in Bangladesh
The coronavirus pandemic has been converted into a festival of corruption in the health sector in Bangladesh. Crises like these do increase the risk of corruption everywhere in the world. However, there is perhaps no other country where corruption has been found to be as awkwardly pervasive as in Bangladesh.
June 29, 2020
Why does money laundering enjoy impunity in Bangladesh?
The Swiss Banking authorities published their annual update on deposits of foreign nationals, including Bangladeshis, on June 25. It shows 603.2 million Swiss Francs or Tk 5,367 crores invested by Bangladeshis, which is 2.38 percent less than that in 2019.
February 12, 2020
Mainstreaming anti-corruption in statecraft
The enthusiastic national celebrations of the Mujib Year have the potential of a great historical value in many different ways.
February 2, 2020
Voting in an intimidated and monopolised space
By all credible indications, voting in the two city corporations of the capital has taken place in an uneven playing field—an electoral space that has been intimidatingly patrolled to ensure its monopolisation.
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