(April 5, 2006) Exporters will have to identify middlemen and face random audits to detect potential bribes under tough anti-corruption rules issued by the government yesterday.
Corruption made-in-west: Wolfowitz
(May 24, 2006) "For every bribe-taker, there’s a bribe-giver, and often that comes from a developed country." – Paul Wolfowitz.
BAE ordered to name payment agents
(March 17, 2006) BAE Systems, Britain’s biggest and most influential arms company, has been ordered to reveal the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.al the identity of agents it uses to make secret payments abroad.
Agency to boost anti-corruption
(March 17, 2006) The Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) offers UK exports insurance against non-payment.
Significant victory for the fight against corruption
(March 15, 2006) Export Credit Guarantee Department re-improves its anti-corruption procedures.
Experience and Practice of Combating Bribery in Officially Supported Export Credits
(February 24, 2006) Prepared by Dr. Sue Hawley, The Corner House, on behalf of ECA-Watch The evidence so far from the OECD Working Group on Bribery Phase 2 reviews.
Germany and Japan block new anti-bribery guidelines for export credit agencies
(February 24, 2006) Anti-bribery watchdog Probe International calls OECD guidelines "paper tiger" anyway.
Covering letter for the ECA-Watch briefing paper on bribery in its phase 2 reviews
(February 24, 2006) “The paper details comments made so far about Export Credit Agency practice on combating bribery and looks at the recommendations made by the OECD Working Group on Bribery and Phase 2 peer review examiners for improving ECA practice" regarding bribery.
Export credit agencies’ graft crackdown stalls
(February 15, 2006) New international anti-bribery guidelines for export credit agencies were due to be agreed in principle early next month. Opposition from Berlin and Tokyo, plus several smaller countries, means the decision will now be delayed by months, if not years, according to officials close to the negotiations, which are taking place in the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Export bribery rules challenged
(February 15, 2006) Tough new guidelinesGermany and Japan have challenged new draft global anti-corruption guidelines for exporting companies, according to documents seen by the BBC. The countries say that rules aimed at improving the transparency of export credit agencies are too bureaucratic.
Multilateral development bank law
(November 15, 2005) This law includes Senator Lugar’s reform measures contained in Lugar’s amendment S.A. 1293 that passed the Senate by unanimous consent.
Iraq health update: Summer 2005
(July 26, 2005) An update of a report by UK-based charity organization Medact has found growing evidence of corruption and a lack of transparency within Iraq’s Coalitional Provisional Authority.
Sub-Saharan debt: the imperative of contract adjustment
(July 1, 2005) Debtor perspectives lack the scholarly attention needed to inform theories, policy and strategies on debt management and illuminate the socio-economic dynamics that keep Third World economies unsustainable.
International Monetary Fund reform
(June 7, 2005) TESTIMONY, Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance (Washington)
Wolfowitz’s Move to the World Bank
(May 31, 2005) Presidency and the sharpening of economic policy as a weapon of mass impoverishment.
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