While there has been an increasing amount of support for transparency initiatives by global resources giants, nations involved are impatient this has yet to translate to social good.
Global miners are being asked to publish what they pay, but is transparency enough?
This was the hard question being asked of governments, mining and extractive industry representatives, intergovernmental…
Tamiflu was stockpiled amid flu outbreaks and scares.
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Are you worried about how decisions involving public money are made? You should be.
Last week, the National Audit Office disclosed that the Department of Health spent £424 million on the anti-flu drug…
The goals of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative are laudable; but an excessive focus on transparency and accountability doesn’t always benefit developing host countries.
A developed country, rich in natural resources, with relatively open and accountable governance lends its support to a global transparency initiative – what does this mean for the world’s poor?
It depends…
Australia has no public register of gift or other relationships between practitioners and drug companies.
Aidan Jones
If it involved the record industry we’d call it payola: undisclosed kickbacks to radio station executives, owners and disk jockeys to boost broadcasts and thus record sales. In the pharmaceutical industry…
Degrees of dirt: the state and organised crime are not separate entities as we like to believe.
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In part 12 of our multi-disciplinary Millennium Project series, Jacqui Baker argues that the ugly truth of organised crime is that governments and their agencies are a fundamental part of it.
Global…
