Global Initiative

The Nexus? Organised crime and terrorism in Africa

The Nexus?

...security institutions just meaningless. Money spent in this way sounds good, looks goods, but changes very little. In a study I authored with colleagues from the Global Initiative for the OECD, “illicit financial flows: Criminal Economies in West Africa”, which will be launched in July 2016, we concluded that a greater focus is needed on the political economy, you really need to know who are the local powerbroker...

Posted on 03 May 2016

Global Initiative

Annual Report 2015

Annual Report 2015

...d a degree of brand recognition, which I think has exceeded the expectations of all who have been involved with us. Our work on migrant smuggling markets, on the environment and wildlife crime and on illicit financial flows in West Africa have brought unprecedented levels of recognition both in the media and in the policymaking world, and this has helped to attract new membership and build a stronger platform on which t...

Posted on 17 Mar 2016

Wildlife Watch

Event: GIFF – Launch and Roundtable

... Executive Summary Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is often informal and unregulated, leaving the sector vulnerable to criminal infiltration and illicit financial flows (IFFs). The Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime and Estelle Levin Ltd. have undertaken the GIFF Project to increase the understanding of IFFs linked to the ASGM sector, including ...

Posted on 15 Feb 2016

Crime & Conflict

Niger’s booming migrant smuggling economy emboldens trafficking groups in the Sahel

Posted on 10 Oct 2015

Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Organized Crime: a cross-cutting threat to development

Organized Crime: A Cross-Cutting Threat to Sustainable Development

Posted on 13 Jan 2015

Protecting Politics, SA-Obs

Unholy alliances: Organized crime in Southern Africa

Unholy alliances: Organized crime in Southern Africa

Posted on 12 Jun 2014

Global Initiative

Aiding and abetting: a critical loophole in the fight against maritime piracy

...organisers and financiers reside and launder their profits far more broadly.  And it is here where the true profits, and thus motivation, are realised.  The findings of "Pirate Trails: Tracking the illicit financial flows off the Horn of Africa" a seminal study by the World Bank, INTERPOL and the UNODC, revealed that less than 2% of profits from a successful piracy attack will go to the pirates that board the ship; w...

Posted on 24 May 2014

Global Initiative

Hoping for A Brave New World

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Gold Watch

Absorption of IFFs from Developing Countries 2002-6

...In December 2008 Global Financial Integrity produced its analysis entitled “illicit financial flows from Developing Countries: 2002-2006.” We found that some $850 billion to $1 trillion a year was disappearing from poorer countries as proceeds of bribery and theft, criminal activity, and commerci...

Posted on 12 Dec 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

A sting in the tale

Posted on 06 Oct 2013

Global Initiative

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Barclay’s Bank Kiboshes Somali Remittances

Posted on 06 Aug 2013