Corruption control: Can the righteous and benevolent exercise of monopolized power help?
Corruption is a global menace that no country has succeeded in bringing down to zero level.
CPI 2023: With the lowest score in 12 years, what’s next for Bangladesh?
If Bangladesh is to succeed in corruption control, impunity must be challenged, and the powerful in particular must be brought to justice.
Corruption, zero-sum politics and democratic decline
Governments that score low in corruption indexes are more prone to use force and violence to control and suppress dissensions and protests.
Election Commission's burden of a looming non-inclusive election
Has the EC played its due role? Or have its actions—or rather inactions—contributed to the current political crisis?
Can a defaulter prevail over the government?
Why has no investigation taken place to explore on which grounds and for whose benefit the lion’s share of the climate fund was deposited in the Farmers Bank?
Income Tax Act 2023: Yet another mortal blow to ACC
This is not the first time that the ACC’s authority in the key areas of its mandate have been tactfully curtailed.
Our anti-corruption capacity is hostage to power
Positions of power acquired through various means have long been allowed to be treated as a licence for self-enrichment through various illicit means.
IMF’s conditions on governance and corruption - rhetoric or reality?
The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.
February 28, 2024
Corruption control: Can the righteous and benevolent exercise of monopolized power help?
Corruption is a global menace that no country has succeeded in bringing down to zero level.
January 31, 2024
CPI 2023: With the lowest score in 12 years, what’s next for Bangladesh?
If Bangladesh is to succeed in corruption control, impunity must be challenged, and the powerful in particular must be brought to justice.
December 9, 2023
Corruption, zero-sum politics and democratic decline
Governments that score low in corruption indexes are more prone to use force and violence to control and suppress dissensions and protests.
November 12, 2023
Election Commission's burden of a looming non-inclusive election
Has the EC played its due role? Or have its actions—or rather inactions—contributed to the current political crisis?
October 8, 2023
Can a defaulter prevail over the government?
Why has no investigation taken place to explore on which grounds and for whose benefit the lion’s share of the climate fund was deposited in the Farmers Bank?
June 27, 2023
Income Tax Act 2023: Yet another mortal blow to ACC
This is not the first time that the ACC’s authority in the key areas of its mandate have been tactfully curtailed.
March 5, 2023
Our anti-corruption capacity is hostage to power
Positions of power acquired through various means have long been allowed to be treated as a licence for self-enrichment through various illicit means.
February 18, 2023
IMF’s conditions on governance and corruption - rhetoric or reality?
The key to the ACC’s effectiveness in delivering its mandate is independence, especially when setting the example that, in handling allegations of corruption, it is guided by equality before law, and not by the status or identity of the individual depending on their political, governmental, or other connections.
February 1, 2023
CPI 2022: Disappointing global and Bangladesh performances
CPI 2022 shows how corruption, conflict and insecurity are interrelated and feed each other.
January 23, 2023
Can a bureaucrat-reliant ACC really be independent?
The recent decision to empower the secretary does not bode well for the Anti-Corruption Commission
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