British Prime Minister David Cameron’s op-ed in the Wall Street Journal lays out his anti-poverty vision. As my colleague Todd Moss notes, this type of serious, top-down and bottom-up debate about development issues doesn’t make the US look especially good by comparison.
The G-20 is not ordinarily considered a major player in the drive against corruption in international business transactions, but that may be changing.
The Toronto Summit in June 2010 established a working group “to make comprehensive recommendations on how the G-20 can take practical steps to combat corruption.” During the Seoul Summit in November, a coalition of emerging market members of the working group (including Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, and Mexico) quietly joined with the United States to urge China to adopt an anti–foreign bribery law.
There were surprise fireworks at the recent Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) 5th Global Conference in Paris—fireworks that could have far-reaching implications for the movement to root out corruption associated with huge oil, gas and mining contracts.
On November 21, 2007, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Anti-Bribery Convention. According to the OECD Web site, the celebration, organized by the Italian government and the OECD Working Group on Bribery, will:
