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Corruption is the cause and core of many human rights violations. Among countries, there is a generalised trend of systemic corruption coexisting with an institutionalised failure to respect human rights. The three countries where perceived...

The Open Budget Survey 2008, a comprehensive evaluation of budget transparency in 85 countries, finds that the state of budget transparency around the world is deplorable. This encourages inappropriate, wasteful, and corrupt spending and-because it...

The Global Corruption Report provides an overview of the state of corruption around the world in 2004. It covers national and international developments, institutional and legal changes and activities within both the private sector and civil society...

This paper provides a report of a workshop held during the 11th International Anti-Corruption Conference on: "Strengthening values and morals in combating corruption: The role of education and religious faith". The topics covered include: the role of...

This paper highlights the following lessons learned at the Brisbane workshop: economic growth without integrity and good governance does not reduce poverty; there is a need to balance awareness raising and enforcement to avoid cynicism; it takes...

This paper provides guidance to DFID staff on how the public expenditure management elements of fiduciary risks should be assessed and managed where DFID provides funds directly to recipient governments to be spent as part of their budgets (direct...

Market reforms have had a mixed record at promoting growth, increasing productivity and alleviating poverty in developing countries across the world: from considerable success in some parts of East Asia, Latin America and Central Europe to...

The paper promotes an anti-corruption strategy that rests on economic development, democratic reform, strong civil society and the presence of rule of law. Based on these principles, the authors recommend concrete measures to be implemented at the...

This report puts into motion a chain of events that fundamentally reformed the way the Bank thinks about, and acts against, corruption. In its first part, it thus details the progress that the Bank has made building each of the four pillars of its...