In the relatively new sphere of anti-corruption compliance, 2016 is shaping up to be one of the most significant years ever. Not because of a record fine levied against a multi-national corporation. Nor because of a new law or stepped up enforcement. But, rather because a group of compliance practitioners from dozens of countries have… Read More
By Matthew Stephenson This blog appeared originally on May 24, 2016 on The Global Anti-Corruption Blog. It is re-posted here with permission. In my two posts last week (here and here), I attempted to go through all of the 41 country statements submitted by the participants in the London Anticorruption Summit held earlier this month, to… Read More
Writing on Medium, CIPE’s acting Executive Director Andrew Wilson asks: with technological change and trade deals making it easier than ever to enter the global marketplace, how can we ensure robust compliance with anti-corruption, labor, environmental, and corporate governance standards? Read the story on Medium and follow CIPE for more stories like this one.
As the world’s attention turns this month towards U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s Anti-Corruption Summit in London, the British government has launched an ambitious project to understand what works and doesn’t work when it comes to reducing corruption in developing countries. The multi-year, $5.2 million effort is part of an Anti-Corruption Evidence partnership between the… Read More
Mutually beneficial exchange of goods and services is at the heart of David Ricardo’s comparative advantage argument and Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Over the centuries, such exchange through commerce has connected countries around the globe through a web of economic links and lifted millions out of poverty. In the modern era, international agreements… Read More
Four billion people, more than half of the Earth’s population, live outside of the rule of law according to a 2008 report by the United Nations Development Program. Lack of rule of law is connected to human rights abuse, crippled democracies, and wasted national resources, a nexus that activists, NGOs and governments call attention… Read More