Stakes are high as the Group of Twenty (G20) prepares for its November 2020 Summit in Saudi Arabia. The COVID-19 pandemic has delivered a systemic shock to the social and economic fabric of countries around the world. Leaders in business and government are grappling with fluctuating health restrictions—including a new round of lockdowns in many… Read More
Photo Credit: OECD By Louisa Tomar, Program Officer with CIPE’s Global Team It goes without saying that cutting-edge technologies are transforming the way multi-national companies and government agencies provide goods and services. At the same time, much of the developing world continues to rely on relatively low-tech solutions to tackle complex problems like poor service… Read More
Photo Credit: G20 Argentina By John Zemko, Regional Director of CIPE’s Latin America and Caribbean Department World leaders gathered recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina for G20 meetings intended to center around a theme of “Building Consensus for Fair and Sustainable Development.” The host country President Mauricio Macri has put fighting corruption at the core of… Read More
Photo Credit: http://riadzany.blogspot.com/2013_08_01_archive.html Forty years ago, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a novel statute called the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). It was the first-ever such statute in the world to govern business conduct abroad and address corruption violations involving bribery of foreign government officials. While the enforcement was initially slow, over time the… Read More
Japan is one of the oldest signatories to the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials — and also one of the worst performing. Since signing the Convention in 1999, the Japanese government has only prosecuted three bribery cases. In addition, the Japanese Diet has yet to ratify the 2003 UN Convention against… Read More
By Rick Messick The World Bank’s Integrity Vice-Presidency is celebrating its 15th anniversary. It recently asked a number of individuals for their thoughts on the anticorruption movement over the past 15 years. INT’s questions and my replies below. 1) How has the anti-corruption movement changed in the past 15 years? Fifteen years ago consensus about corruption… Read More