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Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 – Cape Verde: Football Success and Governance
Cape Verde has surprised the football world with a good performance at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. This country has also achieved a relatively consistent level of Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores since 2012 that are well above the average African, West African and global CPI scores. This video provides a reminder of Cape Verde’s…
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Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 – West Africa key trends
Short, medium and long-term corruption trends in the West African region are presented in this video using scores published by Transparency International in their Corruption Perceptions Index 2025 (CPI2025) report. The analysis demonstrates the performance of fifteen West African countries in the periods 2012-2025, 2020-2025 and 2024-2025.
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Corruption in West Africa (a US perspective)
Introduction The United States State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (“country reports”) strive to provide a factual and objective record on the status of human rights worldwide. The 2021 country reports were published on 12 April 2022. Section 4 of the country reports provides an assessment of Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government…
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West Africa PFM digital transparency recent trends
Introduction Transparency of public finances is a key element of a public financial management (PFM) system enabling public scrutiny of government actions and intentions. From our September 2020 “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation we now examine recent trends in West Africa PFM from a digital transparency perspective by presenting data for…
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Recent Africa PFM digital transparency trends
Introduction Recent African PFM digital transparency trends were identified in our September 2020 “Improving PFM digital transparency in African finance ministries” presentation which examined the current use of digital platforms to promote PFM transparency in 45 African ministries of finance (MoFs) current use of digital platforms to promote PFM transparency. We now introduce some key…