Graduate in Public Finance Management diploma awarded scholarship for further study

The story of José Velásquez, former student of the Public Finance Management Diploma of our SECO-funded Subnational Public Finance Management Programme in Peru, offers an insight into how smart initiatives to build capacity among public servants can have a real impact. José has won a scholarship to continue his studies at the University of Chile. He plans to return afterwards to his home country in order to apply his new skills and knowledge to improve public financial management processes in Peru.

Basel Institute newsletter – December 2018

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

View our December 2018 newsletter here.

Introduction by Gretta Fenner, Managing Director, Basel Institute on Governance:

It’s been a great year is the title of our fourth and last newsletter of this year.

That may sound cynical. We have seen more and even bigger corruption scandals revealed, money laundering risks are on the rise, and journalists around the world have lost their lives over reporting about corruption. This is anything but great.

Social norms and corruption research published in book on Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law

A summary of groundbreaking research into social norms and attitudes towards corruption by our Public Governance team has been published in Ellis, Jane (ed.) Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law – Exploration across the disciplines. Published by Routledge, the book is part of a series entitled The Law of Financial Crime.

Social Norms and Attitudes Towards Corruption: Comparative Insights from East Africa

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

This eye-opening exploration of social norms and attitudes towards corruption appears in Chapter 12 of Ellis, Jane (ed.) Corruption, Social Sciences and the Law – Exploration across the disciplines, published by Routledge on 15 May 2019 as part of a series entitled The Law of Financial Crime. See the publisher's flyer with full details of the book and a 20% discount code.

Gold Laundering – why I decided to tackle the gold trade and human rights

Gold Laundering – the dirty secrets of the gold trade and how to clean up is the latest book by Professor Mark Pieth, President of the Basel Institute on Governance. Published by Salis Verlag in English and German, Gold Laundering looks at how the global gold market works, its fundamental role in shaping economic and political history, and its relation to human rights violations, environmental destruction, corruption and other major problems.

Gold Laundering: the dirty secrets of the gold trade – and how to clean up

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

In this eye-opening book, Mark Pieth gives an in-depth insight into how the global gold market works, what role Switzerland plays in it, where the hidden abuses lie and how human rights in the gold industry can be protected in a credible way.

Threat Finance

Monica Guy

Senior Specialist, Communications and External Relations
+41 61 205 55 12
Biography

From the Taliban in Southwest Asia to al Shabaab in the Horn of Africa to drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico, the behavior, capabilities, and ultimate success or failure of terrorist, criminal, and other transnational threats are closely tied to economic and financial factors.