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Corruption measurement in practice – Blog series on measurement tools

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Corruption measurement in practice – Blog series on measurement tools

In this blog series, leading measurement, evaluation, and corruption experts share up-to-date insights on how to measure corruption.

Since Transparency International first launched its Corruption Perceptions Index about three decades ago, a lot of progress has been made towards the measurement of different types of corruption and the resilience of states and organisations in managing risks, resulting in many different types of assessment tools being available today.

This U4 blog series being published in 2024–2025 presents some of the more recent measurement and assessment tools – focusing on those that have been developed with global or regional applicability in mind, and how they have been, or could be, applied in practice – particularly in development programming.

Series editors: Sofe Arjon Schütte and Joseph Pozsgai-Alvarez

  1. One year on: The Vienna Principles for the measurement of corruption (Elizabeth David-Barrett) 2 Sep 2024
  2. Measuring progress on Sustainable Development Goal 16.5
    (Bonnie J. Palifka) 1 Oct 2024
  3. Pitfalls in measuring corruption with citizen surveys
    (Mattias Agerberg) 11 Nov 2024
  4. Decoding corruption: The DATACORR database for better survey questions
    (Luís de Sousa, Felippe Clement, Gustavo Gouvêa Maciel) 25 Nov 2024
  5. Can we standardise global corruption measurement?
    (Salomé Flores Sierra Franzoni) 13 Dec 2024

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    About the author

    Sofie Arjon Schütte

    Dr. Sofie Arjon Schütte leads U4’s thematic work on the justice sector – including anti-corruption agencies and courts – and evaluation and measurement. Previously, she worked for the Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia and the Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission and has conducted workshops and short-term assignments on corruption in more than 15 countries.

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