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Background Documentation

Basis for Assessment Framework:Guidance Document for Country Assessment and Partnership Building Mission

Domestic Sources

Malaysian GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS ACT 1949 (REVISED 1973).

Anti-Corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific: .Self-Assessment Report Malaysia. ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific. 2004.

Malaysia: TRADE POLICIES AND PRACTICES BY MEASURE Internal Measures: Government procurement, state-owned enterprises and privatization. WTO. WT/TPR/S/31, 3 November 1997.

Selangor’s Human Development Progress and Challenges. United Nations Development Programme. Kuala Lumpur, 10 January 2005.

World Bank Country Report: Malaysia. 2005.

Regional Sources

Thematic review on provisions and practices to curb corruption in public procurement
Country self-assessment reports. ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific. 2005.

Anti-Corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific: The Legal and Institutional Frameworks for Fighting Corruption in Twenty-one Asian and Pacific Countries. Asian Development Bank, 2004.

GUIDELINES FOR PROCUREMENT UNDER ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: Loans Applicable to Loans Made by the Bank from Its Ordinary Capital Resources and Special Funds Resources, November 2004

Anti-Corruption Action Plan for Asia and the Pacific. ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific, 2001.

International Sources

World Bank GUIDELINES: PROCUREMENT UNDER IBRD LOANS AND IDA CREDITS, May 2004.

World Bank Bank-Financed Procurement Manual. July 2001 Draft.

OECD GLOBAL FORUM ON GOVERNANCE: FIGHTING CORRUPTION AND PROMOTING INTEGRITY IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT, November 2004

NORTH AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK: PROCUREMENT POLICIES AND PROCEDURES, 2001.

Procurement Policies and Rules for projects financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, August 2000

Newspaper Reports

Do more to curb graft: Mister integrity. Straits Times, 21 February 2005

Malaysia Prime Minister Abdullah vows to press anti-corruption drive. Wall Street Journal, 06 March 2005

Punish those who bribe as well. The Star, 13 March 2005

Malaysian anti-corruption watchdog arrested 497 suspects in 2004. Borneo Bulletin, 23 March 2005

Malaysian leader vows to wipe out corruption. Associated Press Worldstream, 29 April 2005.

Freedom of Information Act sought by human rights groups. Interfax, 10 May 2005