Selected anti-corruption literature
Selected literature for International conventions:
African Union (AU)
The African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption and Related Offenses
The African Union (AU) Convention on the Preventing and Combating Corruption was adopted by African Heads of State in Maputo, Mozambique, in July 2003 ...
Chaikin, D and Sharman, J C (2009)
Corruption and Money Laundering: A symbiotic relationship
Two worlds which are intrinsically linked - the one of those who fight corruption and those who fight money laundering - have been treated in isolatio ...
COE (1999)
COE Criminal Law Convention on Corruption
The Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention on Corruption is an instrument aiming at the coordinated criminalisation of a large number of corrupt pr ...
OAS 1996
Inter-American States Convention Against Corruption
The OAS Convention requires memebr states to criminalise domestic and foreign bribery. With regard to domestic bribery both the payer and receiver sho ...
OECD
The OECD Convention on Combating the Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transaction
The OECD Convention represents a major move forward in the development of an international regime to combat bribery, and joins the US Foreign Corrupt ...
OSI Justice Initiative (2005)
Legal Remedies for the Resource Curse – A digest of experience in using law to combat natural resource corruption
This publication compiles experiences in applying donor countries’ legislation to prosecute corruption cases in countries such as Equatorial Guinea, N ...
Transparency International
Anti-Corruption Conventions in the Americas: What Civil Society Can Do to Make Them Work.
A new TI publication which sets out how civil society can develop an advocacy strategy which promotes the ratification, implementation and inter-gover ...
United Nations (2000)
United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime
This document sets out the measures which member states should apply consistent with their sovereign equality and territorial integrity. It reflects t ...
UNODC (2003)
The Compendium of International Legal Instruments on Corruption
This is a compilation of all the major relevant global and regional international treaties, agreements, resolutions and other instruments addressed to ...
UNODC (2006)
Legislative Guide for the Implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption
This guide aims to assist States seeking to ratify and implement the Convention by identifying legislative requirements, issues arising from those req ...
UNODC 2003
The United Nations Convention against Corruption
The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) was adopted by the General Assembly by resolution 58/4 of 31 October 2003. It offers an ambit ...
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 UNDP (2008)
Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators This study (available for purchase from OECD) seeks to clarify current trends in the use and misuse of governance indicators as these indicators are applied to developing countries. It includes an in-depth analysis of the most carefully constructed and widely-used governance indicators, those produced by Daniel Kaufmann and his team at the World Bank Institute. The paper argues that composite perceptions-based indicators lack transparency and comparability over time, suffer from selection bias, and are not weel suited to help developing countries identify how effectively to improve the quality of local governance. Fact-based indicators are not necessarily more objective. The authors argue that governance indicators should be based on publicly-available data sets derived from facts, experiences and/or perceptions of diverse, clearly-defined population groups both within and outside the country in question This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. One interesting finding was the lack of correlation between corruption in public procurement reported by firms and broader, perception-based indicators. In addition to an analysis of corruption measurement in the region, the author usefully includes a general "primer on corruption indicators" which outlines definitional and methodological differences between data sources. Composite indices are conceptually less precise than single sources. A major problems is that many give more weight to sources that correlate highly with each other. In the case of expert surveys, high correlation is a natural result of the fact that "experts" read the same analyses as well as each others' rankings. The author argues for broader use of firm, household and public official surveys to identify more specific corruption problems for programming purposes. |