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Corruption and reform in military-owned businesses

A significantly under-researched and often overlooked subject, military-owned businesses pose a significant corruption risk within the defence and security sector. By allowing militaries such influence and authority, the civilian government essentially weakens its position and allows the armed forces to play a significant role in society. As there is extremely limited information on such businesses, our programme has taken a first step through an initial review.
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Understanding corruption risks in Ukraine

Our Programme has been hosting senior Ukrainian officers, officials, and experts to spend some months with us at our offices in London, working on projects of common interest. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, TI-DSP published three reports. These provide insights into corruption risks in defence and security: a vital but distinctly under-researched area of study.

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What we are reading: SIPRI's new report on transparency in military spending in Latin America

According to SIPRI’s new report on military spending and arms acquisitions in Latin America and the Caribbean, additional institutional transparency on defence policy and expenditure in the region could further increase trust and confidence building among states and facilitate informed public debates.

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Recruitment: We are calling for experts to work on our Defence Metric

Our team is calling for Country Assessors and Peer Reviewers to work in our Defence Anti-Corruption Metric for Governments and Armed Forces. Please check the role description for further information.

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5 challenges when making defence budgets transparent

Defence budgets are the primary tool that legislators and civil society can use to hold their governments and armed forces to account and see how their taxes are being spent. So why do so few countries provide defence budget information to their public, and even their legislative bodies?

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Areas of Defence Corruption Research

Whilst our team has published a significant number of defence and security corruption related reports, we realise that much more could be done.
We have created a list of questions that may act as a good reference point for potential researchers.

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