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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL REPORT: EXPORTING CORRUPTION 2022: ASSESSING ENFORCEMENT OF THE OECD ANTI-BRIBERY CONVENTION Open PDF: https://images.transparencycdn.org/images/2022_Report-Full_Exporting-Corruption_English.pdf Open PDF: TI-2022-Report-Full-Exporting-Corruption-English-24722.pdf Peter Burgess COMMENTARY I have been concerned about corruption for most of my professional life. I have a solid educational background that includes engineering and technology, economics and accountancy ... not to mention a rather simple view of what is right and what is wrong. I do not embrace the idea that if something is profitable, it must be good, nor do I subscribe to the idea that everything that is legal is OK. I was quite young and relatively early in my career when I was first asked 'what I wanted the law to be?'. For a price anything is possible! I was doing consulting assignments for the World Bank and the UN when a bank staff member ... Peter Eigen ... left the bank and formed Transparency International (TI). I tried to engage with the new organization because I thought its mission was absolutely what was needed, but did not get any traction with my efforts. Over time I became more and more disappointed as the problem of corruption grew more and more pervasive. TI was a good idea ... and still is a good idea, but has done rather little to stem the tidal wave of international corrupt practice. Some of my thinking about TI is something to do with 'sour grapes' ... but my concern about the problem of corruption should not be dismissed. Too much of the modern world is 'me-centric' and a lot of behavior that would be good for society is unpopular because it does not deliver easy instant gratification. The system that we all live in has become dangerously dysfunctional at the same time that the enabling technologies that are available have become quite amazing. As I see it, our modern management metrics are simply not fit-for-purpose any more which suits a lot of bad actors who are increasingly in positions of power. It is not an optimistic scenario! Is there a silver lining? Peter Burgess | ||
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EXPORTING CORRUPTION 2022: ASSESSING ENFORCEMENT OF THE OECD ANTI-BRIBERY CONVENTION
11 October 2022 Bribery of foreign public officials by multinational companies gives them illicit profits, with huge costs and consequences across the globe. Foreign bribery diverts resources, undermines democracy and the rule of law, and distorts markets. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention requires parties to prohibit and enforce against foreign bribery. Our report assesses foreign bribery enforcement in 43 of the 44 signatories to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention as well as in China, Hong Kong SAR, India and Singapore. While not parties to the OECD Convention, these four countries and territories are major exporters, each with a share of over 2 per cent of world trade, with China being the world’s leading exporter. The report also identifies inadequacies in legal frameworks and enforcement systems as well as progress in addressing them. It further shines a spotlight on the critical issue of victims’ compensation and identifies areas for improvement with respect to the transparency of foreign bribery enforcement data and case dispositions. See also: Press release: Enforcement against foreign bribery hits historic low TI-2022-Report-Full-Exporting-Corruption-English-24722.pdf Feature article: Top trading countries doing even less than before to stop foreign bribery Additional downloads Download 'Exporting Corruption 2022 (slim version of the report)' [PDF] Related publications Exporting Corruption - Progress Report 2018: Assessing Enforcement Of The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Publication • 12 September 2018 The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention requires each signatory country to make foreign bribery a crime for which individuals and enterprises are responsible. Exporting Corruption? Country enforcement of the OECD anti-bribery convention, progress report 2012 Publication • 06 September 2012 Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery: Progress Report 2007 Publication • 18 July 2007 Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery: Progress Report 2006 Publication • 26 June 2006 PRIORITIES Foreign bribery enforcement
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