This paper reviews Angola's recent reform efforts to strengthen good governance and fight corruption. Angola has achieved some progress on the governance and anti-corruption fronts since 2018, but the strong momentum observed through 2022 has abated. Gaps in most governance indicators remain...

The 2024 report builds on the significant achievements and lessons learned in previous years, reflecting the EIB Group's unwavering dedication to combating fraud and corruption. The report gives an overview of the Investigations Division's work to prevent, detect, investigate and remedy...

This study examines whether public governance in China has an impact on corporate tax avoidance. The anti-corruption campaign of 2012 is used as a natural experiment, and we run an event study to investigate how it impacted tax avoidance. We find that tax avoidance was significantly lower after...

This Eurobarometer survey, first conducted in 2013, and repeated in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023, is designed to explore the level of corruption perceived and experienced by businesses employing one or more persons in the following six key sectors: energy, mining, oil and gas, chemicals; healthcare...

The 2023 Investigations Activity Report highlights our commitment to integrity and transparency in all our activities. The European Investment Bank Group (EIB) is dedicated to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and has a zero-tolerance policy for any prohibited conduct. The Group's...

Political corruption is especially relevant for large-scale projects because of their popularity among politicians and citizens alike, as well as their inherent qualities. The goal of this study is to find out about the causes, methods, occurrences, and effects of political corruption in...

Corruption adversely affects all spheres of life, posing a significant threat as an enabler of other crimes. These include terrorism, organized crime, human trafficking, and illegal migration, all of which undermine the European integration process and pose risks not only to Ukraine but also to...

Systematic and efficient collaboration are key contributing factors to efficiency in anti-corruption efforts. Research shows Thailand's anti-corruption networks are decentralised. There are no formal central nodes responsible for coordinating between them. This makes the network not as efficient...

This Eurobarometer survey, first conducted in 2013, and repeated in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2023, is designed to explore the level of corruption perceived and experienced by businesses employing one or more persons in the following six key sectors: energy, mining, oil and gas, chemicals; healthcare...

There is a clear and persistent inequality of bureaucratic employment between individuals with bureaucrat parents and those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how counter-corruption endeavors affect inequality in bureaucratic...

Upon the request of the authorities of Moldova, the Legal Department provided Technical Assistance on the establishment of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Judiciary (SAJ) in Moldova. The TA report provides analysis of the draft law on the Anti-Corruption Judicial System and other related laws,...

Why do some countries prosecute political corruption while others do not? The studies of judicial systems seem to place the answer to that question within the realm of the quality of judicial independence and the quality of judicial institutions designed to protect judicial independence. While...

Compliance with anti-corruption and anti-bribery laws is always a critical piece of any compliance program. In today’s environment, with global economies emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic and facing issues with inflation, supply chains and labor, this area is particularly challenging....

While anti-corruption policies are generally believed to be crucial for investment and economic growth, we argue that such policies may backfire by impairing local officials’ incentives to grow the economy in a society featuring weak formal institutions and a state-led development model where...

The existing literature concentrates mainly on impacts of corruption on economic growth. As the old saying goes, every coin has two sides. We focus primarily on effects of anti-corruption on economic growth. The study of the influences of anti-corruption policies on economic performance is...

In this article we estimate the level of Control of Corruption for 193 countries in the period 2011-2020 using data from the ESG World Bank Database. Various econometric techniques are applied i.e.: Panel Data with Random Effects, Panel Data with Fixed Effects, Pooled OLS, WLS. Results show that...