{"id":2570,"date":"2016-05-13T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T12:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:55","slug":"the-anti-corruption-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/05\/13\/the-anti-corruption-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Corruption Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/anti-corruption-summit-london-2016\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">The Anti-Corruption Summit<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0has <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">taken place in London.\u00a0 The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform.\u00a0 It includes a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/against-corruption-a-collection-of-essays\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">collection of essays discussing corruption.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> plus t<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000\">he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uk-open-government-national-action-plan-2016-18\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">new UK government plans to oppose corruption and to govern access to data.<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For comment see:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"> the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org.uk\/anti-corruption-summit\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Transparency International website.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anticorruption-manifesto.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Anti-corruption manifesto<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> issued by NGOs and Transparency International which gives their perspectives on the problem and what can be done\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">the letter coordinated by Oxfam which was\u00a0 signed by <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/media-centre\/press-releases\/2016\/05\/300-economists-tell-world-leaders-tax-havens-serve-no-useful-economic-purpose\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">300 leading economists and sent to\u00a0world leaders<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> ahead of the summit warning there is no economic justification for allowing tax havens<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">For data on levels of corruption in different regions of the world, good starting points include:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.enterprisesurveys.org\/data\/exploretopics\/corruption\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">World Bank<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> \u2013 its enterprise surveys include materials relating to bribery in business<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/info.worldbank.org\/governance\/wgi\/index.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">World Bank Worldwide Governance indicators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> have reported indicators for 215 economies over the period 1996\u20132014, covering six dimensions of governance one of which is\u00a0 control of corruption<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/cpi2015\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> It ranks countries on how corrupt their public sectors are seen to be.\u00a0 All <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/research\/cpi\/overview\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">reports from 1995 onwards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> can be downloaded from the website.\u00a0 It is also has a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transparency.org\/research\/gcb\/gcb_2015_16\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Global Corruption Barometer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> which enables consideration of regional as well as national trends<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traceinternational.org\/trace-matrix\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">Trace Matrix \u2013 Global Business Bribery Risk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> developed in association with RAND in 2014<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anti-Corruption Summit\u00a0has taken place in London.\u00a0 The UK government website contains the proposals for international reform.\u00a0 It includes a collection of essays discussing corruption. plus the new UK government plans to oppose corruption and to govern access to data. 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