New publications in 2006:

International business attitudes to corruption – survey 2006

The 2006 survey on International business attitudes to corruption was commissioned by Control Risks and Simmons & Simmons. The jointly commissioned survey involved telephone interviews with 350 international companies based in seven jurisdictions: the UK, the US, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Brazil and Hong Kong. It is the fourth in a series of Control Risks surveys on international business attitudes to corruption.

OECD publishes Risk Awareness Tool for companies in weak governance zones
According to the OECD approximately 900 million people, or some 15 per cent of the world’s population, live in so-called ‘weak governance’ zones. Doing business in regions of the world where governments are unwilling or unable to assume their responsibilities in relation to public administration and protecting human rights poses particular risks and dilemmas for companies. The OECD Risk Awareness Tool which was designed with stakeholder input, including TI’s, is designed to help companies consider these risks and dilemmas and proposes ways of responding to them.

Business against Corruption - Case Stories and Examples

Some 3,000 companies and organisations now participate in the United Nations Global Compact. Implementing the Compact’s new 10th Principle against corruption is a considerable challenge for many of them. To help in this process the Global Compact recently published Business against Corruption - Case Stories and Examples, a compendium that offers practical answers to dilemmas and difficulties facing companies as they implement the 10th Principle. The publication, which includes contributions from the private sector, anti-corruption practitioners and Transparency International, deals with issues that include the implications of the UN Convention against Corruption, the correlation between corruption, development and governance, and implementation of anti-bribery programmes.