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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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Andrew P Guth
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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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The Silence of Corruption: Identifying Underreporting of Business Corruption through Randomised Response Techniques
This World Bank research paper propose a new methodology to improve firm-level surveys for measuring corruption in businesses. This study suggests that there is a thorough underreporting of corruption in firm-level surveys. Although the authors admit the limits of their methodology, the Randomised Response Technique is interesting as it allows us to examine the types of firms providing systematic false answers to questions on corruption.
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Thomas Roca
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Jul 22, 2011 12:00 AM
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Corporate Governance, Developement Assistance, Money Laundering, Political Corruption, Asia Pacific, Audit, Experimental Research, Empirical Data Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Private Sector (General)
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Financial liberalization, bureaucratic corruption and economic development
This study examines the relationship between international financial integration and economic development in a small economy where government-appointed bureaucrats may be corrupt. It finds that financial liberalization may cause an increase in corruption and hurt economic development when a small close economy liberalizes its financial markets.
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2011 Financial Secrecy Index
The Financial Secrecy Index is a tool for understanding global financial secrecy, corruption and illicit financial flows. The FSI combines two measurements, one qualitative and one quantitative. The qualitative measure looks at a jurisdiction’s laws and regulations, international treaties, and so on, to assess how secretive it is. The assessment is given in the form of a secrecy score: the higher the score, the more secretive the jurisdiction. The second, quantitative, measurement attaches a weighting to take account of the jurisdiction’s size and overall importance to the global financial markets. The 2011 Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) focuses on 73 secrecy jurisdictions. These places set up laws and systems which provide legal and financial secrecy to others, elsewhere. The index reveals that the traditional stereotype of tax havens is misplaced. The FSI reveals without doubt that the world’s most important providers of financial secrecy are not small, palm-fringed islands as many suppose, but some of the world’s biggest and wealthiest countries.
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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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