The Repatriation of $28.8 Million of Ben Ali's Stolen Assets is a Victory for the People of Tunisia. Now, Let's Try to Keep It There

Amid the ongoing turmoil in Syria and the turbulent transition to democracy in Egypt, the optimism we all felt about the Arab Spring in the...

For most of my professional life, I owned and operated a number of businesses in Nigeria. My partners and I would find a failing company, buy it out, and rebuild it as an efficient, well-run enterprise that turned a profit. We paid our taxes, refused to participate in bribery or...

Global Financial Integrity's new report on illicit financial flows from China showed some of the worst numbers that we've ever estimated. Crime, corruption, and tax evasion cost the world's largest country and second-largest economy $3.79 trillion from 2000-2011. To make matters even darker, illicit capital flight is intensifying. In 2011...

Corruption and secrecy in the oil, gas and mining industries takes a serious toll on developing and emerging economies. It negatively affects human rights, governance, global development and security.

A provision of the new Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation shines a light on the deals that oil, gas and mining...

We learned some devastating news last month. A new study from Global Financial Integrity revealed that despite the onset of the global financial crisis in late 2008, the developing world still suffered nearly $1 trillion in illicit financial outflows in 2009, a number that is almost 10 times...

On September 11, 2001, I was in London. The television images of massive destruction and certain death were no less real for being an ocean away. My wife, departing that morning but turned back to London in mid flight, could not grasp what she was hearing until she, too, saw...

By Jeremy Haken and Raymond Baker

Rumors spread today about the potential departure of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, but just last week, the President assured the Egyptian people that he loves his homeland, is proud of his service, and plans to live out his days in Egypt after...

In October 2003, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) and designated December 9th as International Anti-Corruption Day. With Anti-Corruption Day now in the rear-view mirror, Global Financial Integrity looks back on the past year to see how anti-corruption efforts fared.

This year's International Anti-Corruption Day is marred by a U.S. Chamber of Commerce attempt to weaken the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), our nation's flagship anti-corruption legislation. Passed in 1977, the FCPA was a response to eroded public trust in government following the Watergate scandal and...

Writing about India's booming economic performance and growth potential has become its own cottage industry over the last several years. Indeed, a report out this week predicts that India will become the world's fastest growing economy by 2012 and, by 2030, will likely be the globe's third largest economy...

By Raymond Baker, Thomas Pogge, and Arvind Ganesan

In early December of last year, an unusual group of 40 organizations and individuals met at Yale University to discuss illicit capital flows out of developing countries, lack of transparency in the global financial system, and the impact these conditions have...

The United States Justice Department recently announced the arrest of 1,200 individuals on narcotics charges as part of the four-year, multi-agency law enforcement investigation targeting Mexian drug cartel La Familia known as "Project Coronado." In addition to arrests, law enforcement agents confiscated $3.4 million in U.S. currency, 729 pounds of...