WSJ - Corruption Currents: From Bribing for Clients to Targeting Employees (30 Sept 2014)

September 30, 2014, 3:41 PM ET. Corruption Currents: From Bribing for Clients to Targeting Employees. By Samuel Rubenfeld.

http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/09/30/corruption-currents-from-bribing-for-clients-to-targeting-employees/

Center for Global Development Newsletter - 1 Oct 2014

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Visit CGDev.org Violence and Gender Discrimination Charles Kenny and Sarah Dykstra discuss global responses to violence against women in one of a series of posts addressing the many guises of gender discrimination.  Image: Flickr user: Waterdotorg Read more More Economics of Ebola Mead Over unpacks his and World Bank economists' assessment of the economic impact of Ebola. The costs go far beyond those of treatment and lost labor.   Read more Financial Access Denied Liliana Rojas-Suarez explains why access to financial services in Latin America is lower than in equally prosperous countries. Image: AP Read more Upcoming Events Generating Accountability for People-Centered Health Systems: Strategies and Lessons from Think Tanks October 2, 2014 India's Achilles' Heel: Failure to Deliver Public Services October 2, 2014 Publish What You Fund's 2014 Aid Transparency Index Launch October 8, 2014 More events Podcasts Unpacking WHO's Shocking Ebola Maps - Mead Over September 30, 2014 Hospitals for Health - Amanda Glassman September 22, 2014 Africa's Data Revolution - Amanda Glassman September 7, 2014 More podcasts CGD in the News Brazil Presidential Rivals Clash over Central Bank (Financial Times) September 30, 2014 Many UN Development Goals Still Far Off Target, Experts Say (Al Jazeera) September 29, 2014 America's Foreign Policy Needs a Shakeup (Bloomberg Businessweek) September 29, 2014 More in the news Meet a CGD Expert Mead Over Mead Over is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development researching economics of efficient, effective, and cost-effective health interventions in developing countries. Much of his work since 1987, first at the World Bank and now at the CGD, is on the economics of the AIDS epidemic.

Recent Publications Should Countries Be More Like Shopping Malls? A Proposal for Service Performance Guarantees for Africa Alan Gelb, Vijaya Ramachandran, Alice Rossignol - September 17, 2014 The State of REDD+ Finance - Working Paper 378 Marigold Norman, Smita Nakhooda - September 16, 2014 Self–Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali - Working Paper 377 Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan, Bram Thuysbaert, Christopher Udry - September 15, 2014 Birth Registration, Legal Identity, and the Post-2015 Agenda Casey Dunning, Alan Gelb, Sneha Raghavan - September 9, 2014 More

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Views from the Center Understanding Latin America's Financial Inclusion Gap Liliana Rojas-Suarez - Sep. 30 What Is the Future of DFID? Owen Barder - Sep. 29 New Report Gets Down to Business on Impact Investing and Development Nancy Birdsall, Rita Perakis - Sep. 29 Twelve Million People Worldwide Are Stateless, and Gender Discrimination Is Making the Situation Worse Charles Kenny, Sarah Dykstra - Sep. 25 Obama on Climate (and Development) Lawrence MacDonald - Sep. 24 More Global Health Policy CDC vs Médecins Sans Frontières on Ebola: Is the Perfect the Enemy of the Good? Mead Over - Sep. 25 Aversion Behavior Exacerbates the Economic Impact of Ebola Mead Over - Sep. 24 Welcome US Action against Drug Resistance, but Livestock Loophole Remains Kimberly Ann Elliott, Rifaiyat Mahbub - Sep. 23 Making a Home for Hospitals in Global Health: The Global Hospitals Collaborative Rachel Silverman - Sep. 22 Obama's Ebola Response and a Plea from Liberia Amanda Glassman - Sep. 17 More Rethinking US Development Policy USAID's Frontiers in Development Asks More Questions than It Answers...and That's a Good Thing Casey Dunning - Sep. 23 Something Old, Something New at MCC's Board Meeting Sarah Rose - Sep. 4 Will President Obama Track Africans' Views About Power Performance? Ben Leo - Aug. 28 What Is the Future of USAID's Global Development Lab? An Interview with Alex Dehgan Casey Dunning - Aug. 18 The 2014 US-Africa Leaders Summit by the Numbers Erin Collinson - Aug. 11 More

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UN-REDD Newsletter - October 2014

Features &  Commentary Global leaders pledge to end forest loss and billions of tons of carbon emissions at global Climate Summit The declaration would end billions of tons of climate pollution per year, backed with more than $1 billion down payment and restore 350 million hectares of forest. Read full article… News United Nations Environment Programme and International Union for Conservation of Nature join forces to restore forest ecosystems Efforts to combat climate change and improve livelihoods by restoring forest lands continue to build momentum. This was boosted on 4 September 2014, in the lead up to the UN Climate Summit 2014, with the launch of a new collaboration between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to restore at least 150 million hectares of forest landscapes by 2020. Read more... Forest monitoring making strides in Latin America and the Caribbean Sixteen countries from Latin America and the Caribbean have met to exchange experiences on the use of satellite technology for measuring forest area changes.  Read full article… First steps taken towards forest biomass network in West Africa The first regional workshop on tree volume and biomass modelling was held at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) - Forestry Research Institute of Ghana (FORIG) from 2-9 August.  Read full article… National forest monitoring strengthened in the Pacific Twenty participants involved in national forest inventory activities have gathered from six pacific Island countries to take part in a UN-REDD Programme technical workshop in Labasa, Fiji, helping strengthen their capacity to run national forest inventories.  Read full article… Children of Community Forest Members benefit from School Extension School children in the Siem Reap province of Cambodia are the latest beneficiaries of a wide-ranging and ambitious awareness-raising programme on REDD+.  Read full article… Preparing for Cambodia to enter the Warsaw Framework A national meeting titled “Preparing for Cambodia to Enter the Warsaw Framework” has been held by the REDD+ Cambodia National Programme in order to identify a target date for completing submission to the framework and the activities required in order to do so.  Read full article… African, Asian and Latin American countries prepare for REDD+ Nepal, Ivory Coast, Madagascar and Kenya have requested UN-REDD targeted support on legal preparedness. All are looking to adapt their existing policies, laws and regulations in order to support or put in place national REDD+ processes and strategies, with Kenya having requested the second stage of such support.  Read full article… Find out more about the UN-REDD Programme   Privacy Policy       |       Contact Us       |        Unsubscribe

In this issue Features & Commentary Global leaders pledge to end forest loss and billions of tons of carbon emissions at global Climate Summit News United Nations Environment Programme and International Union for Conservation of Nature join forces to restore forest ecosystems Forest monitoring making strides in Latin America and the Caribbean First steps taken towards forest biomass network in West Africa National forest monitoring strengthened in the Pacific Children of Community Forest Members benefit from School Extension Preparing for Cambodia to enter the Warsaw Framework African, Asian and Latin American countries prepare for REDD+ Previous Issues Browse the archives We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please contact us at UN-REDD@UN-REDD.org

Transparency International - Daily Corruption News: 2 October 2014

Today's top story

Switzerland: Swiss set to get tough over sports corruption
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Host to 65 international sports federations including football’s governing body Fifa, Switzerland is under pressure to hold organisations more to account. Tough new law changes before parliament could make the Swiss a forerunner in the fight against sports corruption, say observers.

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Canada: Key government suppliers face ban as strict anti-corruption rules take hold
The Globe and Mail
France: French police detain Sarkozy ally in election-funding corruption probe
RFI
India: Suspended Syndicate Bank CMD, others get bail in bribery case
Press Trust of India
Indonesia: Indonesian graft busters launch anti-corruption app
Agence France-Presse
Malawi: Malawi judiciary warned of corruption: Face disciplinary action
Nyasa Times
Malaysia: ‘Income disparity causes graft’
The Star Online
US: 6 implicated in National Guard bribery scheme
Associated Press

Blogs and opinion

Global: Three pointers for fighting bribery and corruption
CFO Magazine (TI mention)
Ukraine: Ukraine’s enemy within
The Wall Street Journal
US: How a law from the Civil War fights modern-day fraud
NPR

News from Transparency International

Web feature: Civil society matters
On the blog: Improving young people’s understanding of business sector integrity

The Ethical Alliance - 2 Oct 2014

United States: U.S. Judge Says Wal-Mart Must Face Mexican-Bribe Claims

Canada: Former SNC-Lavalin Executive Pleads Guilty to Bribery, Money Laundering

United States: SEC ends Dialogic probe that was based on successor liabilty

Russia: Ousted opposition-minded Russian mayor denied $381,000 bail

United States: Six charged with bribery in grant U.S. National Guard contracts

Italy: Large part of Eni’s Nigerian oil deal cash went on bribes -Italian prosecutors

Romania: Whistleblower confession unveils influence network in Romania’s acquisition of Microsoft licenses and IT&C hardware

Vietnam: Vietnam’s Natural Resource Minister pressed over corrupt real estate, sand extraction

China: Three More NDRC Pricing Officials Come under Investigation

Philippines: Philippine police chief urged to resign over graft allegations

Wall Street Journal - Corruption Currents: From Anti-Cybercrime Platform to Rosneft’s Deal (25 Sept 2014)

Wall Street Journal - Corruption Currents: From Anti-Cybercrime Platform to Rosneft’s Deal (25 Sept 2014). By Samuel Rubenfeld.

http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2014/09/25/corruption-currents-from-an-anti-cybercrime-platform-to-rosnefts-deal/

The Ethical Alliance Daily (26 Sept 2014)

United Kingdom: Ex-Barclays bankers to give evidence to fraud agency

United States: BHP ‘in discussions’ for FCPA settlement

United Kingdom: Edinburgh lawyer may face money-laundering charges

United States: U.S. SEC wins hundreds of millions in Wyly fraud case

Germany: Bundestag approves ratification of UN anti-corruption convention

Philippines: Graft probe ordered on Abaya, Vitangcol

India: Indian Supreme Court cancels 214 coal scandal permits

South Africa: Russian nuclear deal has potential for corruption on a grand scale, Zille warns

Azerbaijan: Pedagogical College’s director accused of bribery and embezzlement of AZN 700,000

Malaysia: Senior Customs officer claims trial to taking $195,000 bribes for illegal liquor transport