The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates in a 2013 report that child mortality rates in countries with high levels of corruption are about one third higher than in countries with low corruption, and infant mortality rates are almost twice as high. When officials use their positions for private gain – such as awarding concessions… Read More
Anwar Hashmi is a Senior Consultant within Global Ethics & Compliance at Integrity Leadership Partners, LLC in the Washington DC Metro Area. He has over 14 years of experience in designing, developing, and implementing Global Ethics Programs at Tata Steel, a global Fortune 500 company and Tata Group’s flagship company. Hashmi has been associated with… Read More
The good news according to the 2015 Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC) Benchmarking Report is that many risks have plateaued since the report’s launch in 2011. The bad news is that the survey answers still paint a discouraging picture of compliance officers’ struggles to implement a global strategy for anti-bribery compliance and to tame vendor and… Read More
Last week I was reviewing a company’s supply chain code of conduct which was sent to thousands of distributors around the globe. It was not impressive. Cluttered with unnecessary and complex language, it featured lengthy paragraphs and heavy use of the passive voice. It was written in English but distributed in China and Russia — ignorance of international audience… Read More
Nancy Boswell is Director of the American University Washington College of Law’s US and International Anti-Corruption Law Program, a certificate program for practitioners worldwide. CIPE’s Frank Brown discusses Boswell’s academic work, along with general global anti-corruption trends in light of her past leadership of Transparency International USA and her current advisory role at various U.S…. Read More
According to an Ernst and Young Report, the U.S. Department of Justice said in 2012 that more than 90% of its anti-corruption actions involved the actions of third parties. The heads of compliance programs worry that they don’t know where to begin when designing a process for reviewing all third-party business partners. Why we are so… Read More