How can executive agencies in developing countries implement international conventions against corruption? This paper looks at the legal issues presented by the Council of Europe, United Nations and OECD conventions against corruption; as well as the choices which executive agencies (such as the...

In 2007, both Moldovan and Ukrainian authorities took firm steps to reduce corruption along the Transdnistrian border. This paper - aimed mainly at anti-corruption practitioners and scholars in public administration - discusses the background and underlying principles guiding the anti-corruption...

Article 6 of the UN Convention Against Corruption requires that signatory states establish an anti-corruption agency (or agencies) responsible for preventing corruption. However, the Convention - and legal scholarship in general - provides little direction about how such agencies should be...

This paper provides for policymakers a simple overview of the legal and regulatory arguments for using civil law remedies against corruption. Several proposals are also made for improving the effectiveness of the OECD Convention on the Bribery of Foreign Officials in International Business...

A shadow professoriate influences an increasing amount of development economics activity. Badly conceived hiring, pay, and promotion rules, as well as the money-seeking politics institutionalizing these rules, allow self-interested development economists to use its services and join its ranks....

International organisations, like the UN and EU, have encouraged their member states for years to increase civil servants' compliance with particular codes of conduct. Romania represents probably one of the most advanced countries in attempting to legislate on civil servant ethics through its...

By most measures, Hong Kong's companies rank relatively poor in terms of adopting business measures aimed at preventing, detecting, and sanctioning corruption. Because Hong Kong anti-corruption law has focused on natural rather than legal persons, Hong Kong's companies have hitherto had little...

This article discusses many of the lessons learned in the last decade about fighting corruption in Customs. A methodology for measuring corruption including the use of internal audit is suggested. The effectiveness of various treatment approaches is discussed including the criminalisation of...

The principles and findings from internal government audits (aimed at generating recommendations to improve compliance with anti-corruption regulations) can greatly contribute to the wider anti-corruption literature. Internal audit techniques can overcome the weaknesses of the four predominant...