Sentence examples for organizations transparency from inspiring English sources

IN the final days of a year dominated by repeated — and mostly unheeded — calls for full disclosure on the part of Wall Street banks, pharmaceutical companies, the N.F.L. and any number of other organizations, transparency arrived out of the blue from an unlikely quarter if ever there was one: the Freemasons.

Frank Vogl, former senior World Bank official and international reporter for The Times of London, is the co-founder of two leading nongovernmental anti-corruption organizations: Transparency International (TI) and the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF).

Italy lacks effective safeguards against corruption, the global anticorruption organization Transparency International said Friday.

The nonprofit organization Transparency International gives Libya a Corruption Perceptions Index of 2.5, ranking it lower than Zimbabwe, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.

MILAN — Corruption can "flourish almost everywhere" in Italy because of flaws throughout society, the global anti-corruption organization Transparency International said Friday.

Whatever the reason, Kostas Bakouris, the president of the Greek arm of the anticorruption organization Transparency International, said that Greeks were constantly facing the lure of petty corruption.

In 1995, during Benazir Bhutto's government, the anti-corruption organization Transparency International named Pakistan one of the three most corrupt countries in the world.

In its annual ranking of countries on the basis of corruption, the organization Transparency International rates Zambia as among the worst, in the company of Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia.

The anticorruption organization Transparency International complained in March of an "unprecedented increase" in municipal spending ahead of the vote, noting that pensions were raised in Tbilisi but not elsewhere.

"Long term, you encourage people to think that five years from now there will be another amnesty, another discount," said Costas Bakouris, the president of the Greek chapter of the anticorruption organization Transparency International.

Russia ranks at number 143 out of 179, on the 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by the organization Transparency International.