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Anti-Corruption Gateway for Europe and Eurasia.
This site is managed by the Private Sector Development Unit of the OECD.
http://www.nobribes.org/
also similar sites for Transition economies are
http://www.anticorruptionnet.org/
http://www.oecd.org/daf/acn
Better Government Association -Non-partisan watchdog
group dedicated to investigating and exposing waste, fraud, and corruption in
government. URL: http://www.bettergov.org/
See Cartoons against corruption at
http://www.gwdg.de/~uwvw/icr.htm
Center for international integrity
http://public-integrity.org/
Center for Public Integrity, founded by Charles
Lewis in 1990, in Washington DC
investigates public service, government accountability, and ethics-related
issues via books, reports and newsletters. It won a million dollar grant from
John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation on April
2, 2001 and other honors.
http://www.publicintegrity.org/
Campaign 2000: Looks at money in campaigns, candidate
profiles, media links and Top Career Patron Lists etc.
Off the Record: Media Corporations’Legislative Agendas.
The 50 States Project: On-going state-by-state analysis of lawmakers’
conflicts of interest, based on their sources of income and assets, committee assignments, leadership
positions and legislative duties. There are many useful links and a great deal of detailed
information.
CIET (Community Information, Empowerment and Transparency)
cietinfo@ciet.org.
CIET audits search for audits on the ciet
web page.
Police Dept Audit: Bolivia,
Nicaragua, S.
Africa, Tanzania,
and Uganda.
Customs Dept. Audit: Bolivia
and Nicaragua.
Petty Corruption in various countries
Covert Action Quarterly,
a magazine that reveals the ulterior motives behind many of the political
maneuvers in the Third World. The site often has
anti-US bias. http://www.caq.com/
Economist magazine. Economist.com provides Country by Country
insights for 60 countries from Algeria
to Vietnam,
with well-organized stories hand-picked by experts, authoritative, clear and
concise, up to date and even has predictive ability..
http://TheEconomist.s.maildart.net/link_21681_6106081_1_91864114_69487182_1_53
E-government:
Using the Internet to achieve
transparent government.
A pioneering effort called
OPEN (Online Procedures Enhancement for civil applications) system is made in Seoul South Korea
http://english.metro.seoul.kr/government/policies/anti/civilapplications/
Energy Information Administration Although not directly related to corruption, there is
interesting country information relevant for economic development at:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cabs.html
where one has Annual
Projections, Petroleum Monthly, Short Term Energy Outlook, etc.
Ethics Counseling, Canadian site for
useful guidelines (conflict of interest defined) and further links
Ethics
Cabinet Handbook (Ireland)
FATF (Financial Action
Task Force on Money Laundering, OECD)
FORENSIC ACCOUNTING is a new specialty in accounting
profession, which tries to find where money is gone in an organization. It is also useful for fighting
corruption. Recent users include Xerox. (NY Times, May 27, 2001, p.4).
Free Press International: Mind control, martial
law, government induced chaos, corruption, etc. URL:
http://www.realtime.net/~dream/index9.html
Freedom of Information
Act UK
Freedom of
Information Act USA
See also www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OP/html/OP_Home.html
Chris Griffith's story list.
freelancer for The Sunday Mail.
The stories cover scams, the police, corruption, politics, whistle blowing,
and more.
Internet Center for
Corruption Research Goettingen University in Germany
The above university offers a course on Economics
of Corruption, syllabus and we have appended two economics related
resources at the bottom.
International
consortium of investigative journalists
http://www.icij.org/
It has useful information about filing freedom of information requests and
other tools of trade used by investigative journalists.
International
Economic Law Web Resources Fletcher School,
Tufts Univ.
The International
Finance Corporation (IFC) promotes sustainable private sector investment
in developing countries as a way to reduce poverty and improve people's
lives. IFC is a member of the World Bank Group and is headquartered in Washington,
DC. “Dealing with the Devil: The Hell of Corruption,” by Philip
Segal
http://www.ifc.org/publications/pubs/impact/impsp99/s9corruption/s9corruption.html
International
Journalists Assoc.
Worldwide Contact Information
The
International Monetary Fund
The International
Political Science Association.
Research Committee on Political Finance and Corruption, Colgate
Univ.
Joan Bardina Studies Center http://chalaux.org/ and http://bardina.org/ This web site administered
by Brauli Tamarit. contains political and economic proposals against poverty
and corruption including documents, small articles or entire books. The
languages used in this web site are seven: Catalan, Castillian -Spanish-,
English, French, Italian, German and Esperanto.
Jehovah's
Witness Watchtower magazine
www.watchtower.org/library/w/2000/5/1/article_01.htm
has two excellent articles on corruption. It explains how corruption snowballs, how it becomes
acceptable, finally a way of life. Two powerful forces keep stoking the fires
of corruption: selfishness and greed.” See wonderful references to Ecclesiastes (5-10, 8:11)
Matthew (4:8, 9), Hebrews (13:18),
(Romans 13:4, 5), and many such sources.
Journal
of Development Economics has occasional papers dealing with corruption. For
example “Gender and Corruption” by A. Swamy et al in Volume 64, Issue 1,
01-February-2001 finds that women are less corrupt.
http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/sae/econbase/devec/
Journalists
Against Corruption
http://www.cipe.org/pfc/english/
KPMG, Accounting firm s fraud surveys.
Legal
Information regarding International commerce
Mario's Cyberspace Station:
Dirty Money
Money Laundering
Alert, a Newsletter.
National Whistleblower
Center (US)
advocates the right of employees to blow the whistle on fraud, corruption, government
waste, and violations of environmental laws. http://www.whistleblowers.org/
Nathanson Centre for the
Study of Organized Crime and Corruption based in Canada
and includes both US and Canada
contact: markscollins@hotmail.com
Open
Secrets, publicly available information regarding campaign contributions,
etc. Site recommended by Mike Clevet. http://www.opensecrets.org/ It includes information about Feb.
2001, economics meetings with business leaders and contributors to President
G. W. Bush.
OECD
PUMA other links
Fifteen OECD Member countries (Belgium, the
Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
Korea, Mexico, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) tabulation of twelve
actions against corruption, survey summary
Price Waterhouse Coopers, Transparency Project
www.opacityindex.com great source of data, including
effect of corruption on cost of capital in different countries. Opinion survey information.
Quotes
or One-Liners
against corruption.
Report on Money Laudering
Typologies
(OECD, FATF, 1997-1998)
Rule of Law Foundation
Respondnet:
publishes various issues: for example, Issue 23 has New "Cost of
Corruption" Index
Policy Framework to Curb Corruption in the Judiciary.
- GAO Releases Report
Evaluating the World Bank's Anti-Corruption Strategy.
- U.S. Court Grants
Asylum to Whistleblower from Other Country.
- NGOs and the Fight
against Corruption.
- 10th International
Anti-Corruption Conference.
- Standards to Improve
Financial Reporting by Governments.
- World Bank Institute's
Anti-Corruption Conference.
- Media Representatives
Participate in Anti-Corruption Conference
- Focal's Workshop on
Transparency and Corruption
- New Publications.
- Upcoming Events.
Contact: Eduardo Flores eflores@casals.com
Strategy
for Global Intelligence: An
intelligence consulting firm in Austin, Texas, has launched (March 1999) an experimental
web site to provide intelligence instead of news about major global events
http://www.stratfor.com/
Survey
Research On Economic Development World Bank corruption data.
John Tierney s 1997 book The origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and
the Evolution of Cooperation, published by Viking, notes that surest
promoter of virtue has always been information, not regulation. Hence,
internet has a great potential in fighting corruption.
Trasactional Records Access Clearinghouse,
Syracuse University, NY
(money laundering)
TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL
1999
corruption perception index and Bribe Payer's Index
MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOURCE www.transparency.de/site-tools/links.html has the best set of links to several
other links.
http://www.transparency.org/surveys/index.html#bpi
has knowledge center Corruption Surveys and Indices
United Nations
UN toolkit against corruption
http://www.undcp.org/corruption_toolkit.html
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
Overcoming Human Poverty:
UNDP Poverty Report 2000 builds on annual human development report by Mahabub
ul Haq, late Pakistani expert who emphasized adult illiteracy, proportion of
underweight children under age 5, probability of dying before age 40. Local
good governance is important. Bad (corrupt) government is often the cause of
poverty. (NYT, Apr 5, 2K, p. A 15)
U.S.
Customs Service
Corruption on the Border. An Investigative Newsletter Uncovering Corruption
in the US
Customs Service. By: John Carman.
www.customscorruption.com
U.S. Department of Justice,
U. S. Department of State
An Electronic Journal of the U.S.
Department of State, Vol. 6, No. 2, May 2001
has a special issue on money laundering downloadable at:
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/0501/ijee/ijee0501.pdf
VINOD’s Papers on Corruption Related Subjects
Vinod 2002, Bnking Divestiture paper “Divest Investment Banking form
Financial Institutions,” is posted at Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=323280
Vinod 2002, Enron paper “Winners and Losers in
Multiple Failures at Enron and Some Policy Changes” is posted at Social
Science Research Network (SSRN)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=300542
Vinod 2001
International Finance “OPEN ECONOMY AND FINANCIAL
BURDEN OF CORRUPTION: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO ASIA” presented at the Ninth Annual Conference on Pacific
Basin Finance Economics and Accounting, September 22, 2001, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Vinod 99a Corruption:
Data Analysis and Novel Solutions Using the Internet, by H. D. Vinod,
Feb. 1999. pdf file
Vinod99b Statistical
Analysis of Corruption Data and Using the Internet to Reduce Corruption
by H. D. Vinod, Sept. 1999, pdf file, to appear in Journal of Asian
Economics
World Bank
governance site is at http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/
HOMEPAGE:
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/
PUBLICATIONS:
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/pubs_main.htm
DATA:
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/data_main.htm
LINKS:
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/links.htm
Corruption
by World Bank officials is investigated by Fraud Investigations Unit Investigations Unit
World
Bank's Choice of related sites.
The four main themes of the World Bank's Anti-Corruption strategy are
(i) Preventing Corruption in Bank Projects (ii) Helping Countries Reduce
Corruption (iii) Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption in Bank Projects, and (iv)
Supporting International Efforts. Web at: http://www.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/
World Bank Institute (WBI). INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND ANALYSIS: NEW FINDINGS AND PROGRAMS IN
GOVERNANCE. The World Bank Institute (WBI) Governance e-Newsletter is one of
many excellent Newsletters available through free subscription at the
WBI. Interested researchers may
view the current document at: governance-update@lists.worldbank.org. A complete listing of e-Newsletters
may be viewed at the World Bank Home Page. Topics included in the latest governance e-document have a
global range in research, governance indicator datasets, legal and judicial
reform, combating money laundering, foreign investor governance standards in
transition economies, and empirical tools for governance analysis. An extensive Interactive Governance
Databank is accessible through several URLs to be found within the text of
the Governance Newsletter dated October 23, 2002. (GovernanceWBI@worldbank.org ,
October 23, 2002, summary by Marg Reynolds).
World Justice Information Network --
Logon Page
Announced In May 2002: Investment Climate -- the View of the Firm: New
Interactive Web Tool and Database on the Business Environment and Governance
Constraints Read about what is
new at: http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/governance/whatsnew.htm. For example, Supreme audit institutions can curb corruption by
reinforcing legal, financial, and institutional frameworks and by reducing the
arbitrary application of rules and laws. In the aftermath of September 11th,
facing up to the problem of global Money Laundering has taken new urgency.
The World Bank Institute, in collaboration with the Financial Sector Vice
Presidency at the World Bank, is planning to carry out learning programs in
Anti-Money Laundering.
WhistleStop
Information on anonymous whistle blowing and a register of
journalists interested in corruption. See above under “N” for National
Whistleblower Center (US)
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