A report detailing new estimates for volume and patterns of illicit financial flows, finding that Africa lost $854 billion in IFFs from 1970-2008...
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By Dev Kar, Karly Curcio
Jan-18-2011 | Report
Updating its 2008 report, GFI has expanded the range of years analyzed, updated existing figures based on new data, and included a focus on Asia.... Read More »
By Raymond Baker, Piet Biesheuvel, Tom Hamilton-Baillie, ‘Funmi Olonisakin
Apr-01-2007 | Report
Security and Justice Sector Reform (SJSR) has assumed an increasingly prominent role on the international policy agenda since the end of the 1990s.... Read More »
By Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts, Ronnie Lipschutz
Feb-05-2007 | Report
In its anxious search for energy security, the United States has embarked on a risky strategy to arm and train the militaries of oil-producing West African countries under the rationale of pursuing the Global War on Terror. Over the past 15 years, amidst widening crises in the Middle East and volatile petroleum markets, the U.S. has quietly institutionalized a West African-based oil supply strategy, closely focused on an “Oil Triangle” centered on the Gulf of Guinea. ... Read More »
By Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts
Jun-16-2011 | Article
For the first time in Nigerian history a southern minority was declared the President, in the April 2011 elections. In ... Read More »
By Paul Lubeck, Michael J. Watts
Jun-13-2011 | Article
For the vast majority of Nigeria’s 73 million voters, cynicism and resignation are the trademarks of Nigerian politics... Read More »
By William D. Hartung
Jun-03-2011 | Article
President Obama’s evolving policy towards the rapid changes in the Middle East and North Africa has one glaring ... Read More »
Monique Perry Danziger quoted
Monique Danziger, communications director with Global Financial Integrity, said Libya has the "spottiest" data reporting of the 162 countries that report financial figures to the IMF and World Bank. ...Read More »
Paul Lubeck quoted
Looking toward Nigeria would be “natural” for the Qaeda affiliate, said Paul Lubeck, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who studies the region....Read More »
Raymond Baker quoted
"It is potentially a very strong tool," says Raymond Baker of the Center for International Policy in Washington. "An awful lot of foreign institutions will look at that list and say, well, we don't want to take the chance that we will end up violating US law."...Read More »
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