Global Corruption Report 2009: Corruption and the Private Sector
Featuring analysis from more than 75 experts and 46 in-depth country reports, the report examines the scale, scope and devastating consequences of corporate corruption, ranging from small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa to multinationals in Europe and North America. The report also identifies the most promising tools to tackle corruption in business and outlines how companies, governments, investors, consumers and other stakeholders can contribute to raising corporate integrity.
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Bribe Payers Index 2008
The 2008 Bribe Payers Index ranks 22 of the world’s wealthiest and economically dominant countries by the likelihood of their firms to bribe abroad. Based on the experiences of 2,742 senior business executives from companies in 26 developed and developing countries, the survey reveals that despite governments’ pledges of zero tolerance for foreign bribery and companies’ assurances of ethical behaviour and corporate social responsibility, not one of the world’s most influential economies can be seen as being exempt from exporting international corruption.
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Progress Report 2009: Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
The majority of the world’s leading exporting countries are failing to fully enforce a ban on foreign bribery, according to the fifth annual Progress Report on Enforcement of the OECD Convention. Only four out of 36 countries evaluated are actively enforcing the convention. The 2009 report also covers the adequacy of anti-money laundering systems, the need for corporate criminal liability, public access to information and whistleblower protection.
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Transparency in Reporting on Anti-Corruption – A Report of Corporate Practices
Leading, publicly listed companies around the world are far from demonstrating embedded anti-corruption practices in their operations. The report assesses nearly 500 leading listed companies on the extent to which they have reported on the strategies, policies and management systems they have in place for combating bribery and corruption.
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Resist (Resisting Extortions and Solicitations in International Transactions) is a training tool to help employees counter solicitation and extortion demands in the most efficient and ethical manner, acknowledging they might be accompanied by a threat. The tool aims to help companies reduce the probability of such demands being made. Over 20 companies and organisations contributed to designing RESIST, based on their experience of solicitation and extortion demands.
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Business Principles for Countering Bribery
Spearheaded by Transparency International, the Business Principles was produced in collaboration with companies, academia, trade unions and non-governmental bodies, to provide a framework for companies to develop comprehensive anti-bribery programmes
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Recommendations to the Group of 20
This set of recommendations corresponds to select points relevant to transparency and accountability as published in the Progress Report on the Economic and Financial Actions of the London, Washington and Pittsburgh G20 Summits.
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