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Building Integrity and Countering Corruption in Defence and Security: 20 Practical Reforms
Drawing on over 3 years of work and contribution of experts from 35 countries, this handbook offers recommendations on ways to diagnose corruption risks and on how to lead change in defence and security establishments. It includes discussions on military operations, the procurement process, and budgets and assets, and show how nations are tackling corruption risks in each of these areas.
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Corruption and International Security
The paper discusses the links between terrorist groups, organised crime, and corruption and how these links threaten global security. Consequently, it suggests that in order to properly combat terrorism and organised crime, corruption must be confronted and curbed. Often, these groups seek out weak countries to establish bases to operate from, and this creates a rift between countries that are used as havens (including financial haven countries) and those that are not. The focus should be on countries where personal loyalty supersedes civic duty or where the judicial system, police force, and or other security forces have been infiltrated by these groups. Finally, while government reforms are important, the most effective tactic in reducing corruption lately has tended to be the “name and shame” campaigns by the media. These tactics should continue to grow stronger and more plentiful if terrorism and organised crime are to be reduced.
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Aug 17, 2011 02:49 PM
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Human Rights, Judiciary, Money Laundering, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Security, Transition Countries, Global, Access to Information, Investigative Journalism, New Media, International Analysis, Defence, Financial Markets
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Anti-Corruption: The Indirect 'Big-Bang' Approach
In this article, Rothstein argues that in countries where corruption is wide-spread and systemic, incremental institutional changes based on the advice from the international “good governance regime” are unlikely to work. Thus adding such new instituions as 'anti-corruption agency', or increasing transparency in the policy-making process, is unlikley to lead to any systematic decrease in corruption becasue they are based on the assumption that corruption is a 'principle agent problem' - that is to say that corruption exists due to an asymmetry in information, and if only the everyday citizens simply knew what the corrupt policy-makers were doing, they could choose a cleaner alternative. Rothstein argues that in many cases, such an alternative does not exsist and that corruption should be seen more as a 'collective action problem', thus requiring a major "big bang" type of reform. He illustrates an example of such a reform based on the case of 19th century Sweden.
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Jul 01, 2011 01:19 PM
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Civil Society, Elections, Judiciary, Media, Political Corruption, Transition Countries, Global, Citizen Initiatives, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Education, Health, Defence
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Where the Bribes Are Paid - Interactive Database
This interactive database compiles decades of data on violations and penalties under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. flagship legislation that makes bribery of foreign officials a crime. Since its inception, prosecutors have penalized over 200 companies under the FCPA in about 80 countries, amassing about $4 billion in penalties. The database, called Where the Bribes are Paid , allows users to see how the total penalties amassed in each country break down by sector.
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2011 Bribe Payers Index
The Bribe Payers Index is a unique tool capturing the supply side of international bribery, specifically focussing on bribes paid by the private sector. The 2011 Bribe Payers Index is the fifth edition of the index, ranking 28 of the world’s largest economies according to the likelihood of firms from these countries to bribe when doing business abroad. It is based on the results of Transparency International’s 2011 Bribe Payers Survey. This asked 3,016 senior business executives in 30 countries around the world for their perceptions of the likelihood of companies, from countries they have business dealings with, to engage in bribery when doing business in the executive’s country. A sectoral ranking is also available which scores and ranks 19 sectors. The survey asked how often three different types of bribery were perceived to occur in each sector: firstly, bribery of low-ranking public officials; secondly, improper contributions to high-ranking politicians to achieve influence; and thirdly, bribery between private companies.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Nov 24, 2011 12:40 PM
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Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy
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Shadow economies all over the world: new estimates for 162 countries from 1999 to 2007
Three researchers from the World Bank have made a serious attempt to capture a country's "shadow economy" (as a percentage of GDP) for 162 countries over a 9 year period. In the paper listed below, they elucidate their methods for capturing this clandestine concept. The authors find signficant variation in the sample, as they find that developing countries have more than twice the level of a "shadow economy" of the 25 welathy, OECD countries in the sample, which they argue increases the burden of taxation and decreases the quality of public goods and services.
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Country Assessor / Peer Reviewer
Dec 13, 2011 01:30 AM
The Transparency International Defence and Security Programme plans to establish a global index to measure levels of integrity and corruption in national defence and ...
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