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Impact Interview: Martha Chen

2014-05-19 by ASAP Global

In this article, Gabriel Neely-Streit interviews Professor Martha Chen, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Read more of our Impact Interviews. In 1997, Chen helped found, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO), a “global research-policy network that seeks to improve the status of the working poor, especially women, […]

Filed Under: Impact Interviews Tagged With: Bangladesh, BRAC, India, Martha Chen, Oxfam, Project: Impact: Global Poverty, WIEGO

Impact Interview: Jason Sharman

2014-03-04 by ASAP Global

In this article, Gabriel Neely-Streit interviews Professor Jason Sharman, of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. His recent work has been instrumental in exposing widespread corruption among Papua New Guinea (PNG) government officials. Millions of dollars, Sharman has found, are being siphoned from PNG government accounts into private bank accounts and investments in Australia, many of […]

Filed Under: Impact Interviews Tagged With: II

Prof. Jason Sharman on Pressuring Governments and Banks on Corruption

2014-03-04 by ASAP Global

This latest ASAP Impact Story profiles Prof. Jason Sharman of Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, whose recent work has been instrumental in exposing widespread corruption among Papua New Guinea (PNG) government officials. Millions of dollars, Sharman has found, are being siphoned from PNG government accounts into private bank accounts and investments in Australia, many of which belong to government officials.

Filed Under: Impact Interviews Tagged With: II, Jason Sharman, Papua New Guinea, Project: Impact: Global Poverty, Theme: Institutional Reform

Impact Interview: Robtel Neajai Pailey

2014-02-24 by ASAP Global

In this latest Impact Interview, Elaine Kellman speaks with Robtel Neajai Pailey, a Mo Ibrahim Foundation Ph.D. Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, who is battling corruption in Liberia. Read more of our Impact Interviews. While still a doctoral student, Robtel Neajai Pailey has emerged as a globally […]

Filed Under: Impact Interviews Tagged With: II

Impact Stories: SOAS PhD Student Robtel Neajai Pailey Uses Innovative Methods to Tackle Corruption in Her Native Liberia

2014-02-24 by ASAP Global

Elaine Kellman speaks with Robtel Neajai Pailey, a Mo Ibrahim Foundation Ph.D. Scholar at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, who is battling corruption in Liberia.

Filed Under: Impact Interviews Tagged With: Chapter: UK, Chapter: West Africa, II, Liberia, Robtel Neajai Pailey, SOAS, Theme: Institutional Reform, University of London

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