The Anti-Corruption Summit has taken place in London. The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform. It includes a collection of essays discussing corruption. plus the new UK government plans to oppose corruption and to govern access to data.
For comment see:
- the Transparency International website.
- the Anti-corruption manifesto issued by NGOs and Transparency International which gives their perspectives on the problem and what can be done
- the letter coordinated by Oxfam which was signed by 300 leading economists and sent to world leaders ahead of the summit warning there is no economic justification for allowing tax havens
For data on levels of corruption in different regions of the world, good starting points include:
- World Bank – its enterprise surveys include materials relating to bribery in business
- World Bank Worldwide Governance indicators have reported indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996–2014, covering six dimensions of governance one of which is control of corruption
- Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index. It ranks countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be. All reports from 1995 onwards can be downloaded from the website. It is also has a Global Corruption Barometer which enables consideration of regional as well as national trends
- Trace Matrix – Global Business Bribery Risk developed in association with RAND in 2014
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