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TI Working Papers
Working Papers (WPs) reflect TI’s ongoing work on its five global priorities and address other key anti-corruption issues. They profile innovative and succinct perspectives and highlight areas for follow-up action.
WPs are intended for a broad audience including the TI Movement, relevant CSOs, companies, governments, journalists and academics. Leading experts and partners in combating corruption — including TI national chapters — are often invited to guest author papers.
WPs form part of TI’s Working Paper and Policy Position series and are produced in coordination with the Policy and Research Department. Unlike Policy Positions, they do not set out a specific TI stance but rather focus on lessons learned in crafting effective policy responses. All are available electronically, as a hard copy and in English, French and/or Spanish.
TI Working Papers are developed according to these guidelines.
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Both developed and developing nations are responsible for stealing assets, sidelining initiatives to repatriate them and profiting from corruption. Ending this complicity is urgent.´ |
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| In corrupt education systems, students do not acquire the skills and knowledge needed to contribute meaningfully to their country's economy and society. They learn from a young age that a lack of integrity is an acceptable way of life.
Working Paper No. 4/2007and 4/2009. |
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| While the corruption that affects HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment is similar to others in the health sector, the scale of the pandemic, high drug costs, and numerous new agencies increase the opportunities for breakdowns
Working Paper No. 2/2006. |
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| In their daily lives, citizens tend to have close contact with local agencies. This proximity to the people and the discretion that local officials have can make local government highly vulnerable to corruption. Experiences from Liberia, Peru, Slovakia and South Korea are profiled to show how stakeholder collaboration can aid in designing effective local initiatives to combat corruption.
Working Paper No. 05/2009 |
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| Every year, the world spends more than US $3.1 trillion on health services. However, growing evidence indicates that corruption results in significant losses and denial of good quality health services to millions of people.
Working Paper No. 1/2006. |
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| Corruption is a key contributor to the degradation of renewable natural resources. Poor governance may translate into sub-standard environmental policies and, in extreme cases, the wholesale plunder of a country's natural resources.
Working Paper No. 1/2007. |
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| Both anti-corruption approaches and security policies need to address linkages between them and look at the broader context that has created a web of security risks — within and outside national boundaries.
Working Paper No. 4/2008 |
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From match-fixing to construction kickbacks, the sporting world has seen a string of corruption scandals. Yet many sports organisations have not yet dealt properly with the problem of corruption and sport. |
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| The characteristics of the area of the Middle East and North Africa known as the MENA region tend to fuel corruption and result in low levels of transparency. Yet anti-corruption strategies have primarily focused on public institutions and laws without addressing the roots of the problem.
Working Paper No. 02/2009. |
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| Global defence is a big business, with expenditures exceeding more than US $1 trillion. Yet the defence establishment has historically been one of the least transparent of any government organisation.
Working Paper No. 2/2007. |
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| Women impact on, and are affected by, corruption. Anti-corruption policies need to address these gender implications if successful interventions are to result.
Working Paper No. 3/2007. |
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| Humanitarian aid is at risk from corruption. Lessons learned provide ideas for policies to minimise these risks and offer guidance for the many organisations engaged on this issue.
Working Paper No. 3/2006. |
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| Although international anti-corruption and human rights regimes can run parallel agendas, they are rooted in the same principles. These commonalities suggest there are many actions and activities where both could better compliment each other.
Working Paper No. 5/2008 |
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Integrity, like corruption, is learned. Unfortunately, in many countries corruption has been tolerated for generations. Young people have the potential to transform this present reality and end corruption. |
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| Across different country contexts, corruption has been a cause and consequence of poverty. Yet donors and governments still treat poverty and corruption as separate — rather than integral — components of the same strategy, which has undermined the fight against both these obstacles to development.
Working Paper No 2/2008. |
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| Both developed and developing nations are responsible for stealing assets, sidelining initiatives to repatriate them and profiting from corruption. Ending this complicity is urgent.
Working Paper No 1/2009. |
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| The Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, adopted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), provide a set of corrupt accountability standards that offer great potential for civil society to effectively combat private sector corruption.
Working Paper No 3/2008. |
