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This case study of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) and its groundbreaking exposés of corruption and wrongdoing by the former president of the Philippines, Joseph Estrada, illustrates that the news media can be the most effective of tools to control executive abuse, but that it can only play that role when the press is relatively free and when information of a public nature can be obtained and scrutinized by diligent journalists.
World Bank Governance materials, http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pubs.html
Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism
The World Bank Institute, http://www.worldbank.org/
Washington DC, USA
Inter-Government
The World Bank Group’s mission is to fight poverty and improve the living standards of people in the developing world. It is a development Bank which provides loans, policy advice, technical assistance and knowledge sharing services to low and middle income countries to reduce poverty. The Bank promotes growth to create jobs and to empower poor people to take advantage of these opportunities.
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