Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency : The Fight Against Corruption
News headlines over the last few years have been filled with global scandals involving corruption on an unprecedented scale. They touch virtuallyevery continent, from Asia to Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The scale, magnitude, and sophisticatio...
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World Bank, Kuala Lumpur
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/235541600116631094/Enhancing-Government-Effectiveness-and-Transparency-The-Fight-Against-Corruption http://hdl.handle.net/10986/34533 |
| Summary: | News headlines over the last few years
have been filled with global scandals involving corruption
on an unprecedented scale. They touch virtuallyevery
continent, from Asia to Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
The scale, magnitude, and sophistication of the operations
has increasingly risen to levels that many had not
considered possible before. Governments are forever in
search of new approaches and tools that can help identify
loopholes and entry points for corrupt activities. While the
containment of COVID-19 (coronavirus) and its devastating
human and economic impacts have more recently been the focus
of government actions, it is almost certain that huge
amounts of spending in a short time, circumventing the
standard operating procedures, will result in new corruption
scandals in the post-COVID (coronavirus) years. There are
already reports in papers regarding inflated food prices or
favored medical contracts to firms from a few countries. In
drawing on the past and looking ahead to the future, the
time is ripe for the World Bank to take a fresh look at the
state of play in tackling corruption and how countries are
attempting to address this long-standing scourge on development. |
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