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Cracking down on the insidious impact of organized crime in Fragile and...
Drug smuggling and human trafficking, money laundering, the illegal exploitation of natural resources and wildlife, the sale of fraudulent medicines or counterfeit goods: They're all criminal...
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Amid the rescue and recovery in Greece: Corruption-hunting – putting promises...
After the drama, the dénouement. Crisis-watchers who were riveted to last week’s continuous flow of breaking-news bulletins from Brussels – as the European Union and Greece furiously negotiated (often...
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Piggybanks for plunder: Corrupt cash flows to Global Cities, requiring...
Corrupt cash from secretive international sources – deliberately funneled through ‘shell companies’ to conceal the money’s illicit origins – is often used to buy ‘Towers of Secrecy’ in leading global...
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Structured dialogue, value chain and competitiveness: A journey through...
Afghanistan. Photo by Steve Utterwulghe. This latest blog post should start with a mea culpa. Indeed, my 2015 work plan for public-private dialogue (PPD) did start in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, not...
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Competitive Cities: Bucaramanga, Colombia – An Andean Achiever
Modern business facilities, tourist attractions, and an expanding skyline: Bucaramanga, Colombia. When the World Bank’s Competitive Cities team set out to analyze what some of the world’s most...
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A good diagnosis for the city economy?
One walks into a doctor’s office knowing what hurts but with little knowledge of what should be done to fix it. Identifying proper treatment requires sophisticated tests, participation of experts and,...
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