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our Reference Center for new and
improved Information
on Countries of the region of the Anti-Corruption
Network for Transition Economies. More information
is now available and it has been organized in an easy-to-retrieve
fashion. You will find legal documents, programs,
publications, reports, anti-corruption assessments,
and useful links.
Also, look for new
publications in our Library
and new information on
the Diagnostic
Assessment page.
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can actively participate in the fight against corruption.
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New
U.S. Anti-Corruption Law
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International Anti-Corruption and Good Governance
Act of 2000 was passed by the House and Senate
and was signed into law by President Clinton on October
17, 2000. This new U.S. law authorizes programs to
combat corruption and promote good governance amending
the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. |
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Slovakia
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Government of Slovakia has adopted, after public discussion,
two anti-corruption documents:
The National
Programme of the Fight Against Corruption.
The Programme is focused primarily on corruption
in the public sector involving public funds. The
purpose of this document is to promote the concept
of fighting against corruption and to outline methods
that will help in that regard. The Programme was
adopted on 20 September 2000.
The Action
Plans for fighting corruption have been
developed by a number of governmental agencies and
NGOs and adopted as a joint document on 22 November
2000. The plans contain specific commitments, assign
responsibility to individual sectors and authorities
and outline the timetable for implementation of
specific measures.
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A
non-profit organization, E-Society,
initiated a new project to allow internet users
to monitor and control the work of state authorities
through creation of an internet information server.
It encourages citizens to present their opinions on
the work of state employees and intends to develop
recommendations on fighting corruption and bureaucracy
within the state administration. |
| Georgia |
Russia |
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Guidelines for the National Anti-Corruption Programme
were published in October 2000 and the President of
Georgia, Eduard Shevardnadze, endorsed the passing
of this document for public discussion. The Guidelines
provide the basis direction for a National Anti-corruption
Programme. The programme was prepared by the National
Anti-corruption Programme Elaboration Group of Georgia
under the auspices of Presidential Decree #296 (9th
of July 2000) and it includes a close examination
of the current corruption situation in Georgia and
lists specific recommendations for immediate action
to alleviate the problem. |
Journalists
Against Corruption
is theme of a competition in Russia.
The Russian Journalists'
Union, with support from the Russian division of
the Open Society Institute, is organizing a nationwide
contest for the best broadcast and print investigative
reports on corruption in 2000. The winners will
be chosen in January 2001.
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The
Southeast European Legal Development Initiative (SELDI).
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Southeast European Legal Development Initiative (SELDI)
serves as an open framework for cooperation in the legal
field between the international community and non-governmental
organizations and individuals in the Balkans, thus contributing
to the building of regional stability.
With the aim of strengthening the existing network of
SELDI partners, interested non-governmental organizations
and civil society groups in the countries of Southeast
Europe and resource groups outside the Region are invited
to send to IDLI and CSD their expressions of interest
in participating in this important new initiative.
For more
information visit the SELDI
website or read SELDI
Announcement for contact information.
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Development Organization Initiatives |
| State
Capture and Corruption |
Council
of Europe |
| Seize
the State, Seize the Day: State Capture, Corruption and
Influence in Transition -- by J. Hellman, G.
Jones, and D. Kaufmann (2000). This paper—a product of the
Governance, Regulation, and Finance Division, World Bank
Institute; the Public Sector Group, Europe and Central Asia
Region; and the Office of the Chief Economist, European
Bank of Reconstruction and Development—is part of an empirical
project on governance in transition. The authors empirically
investigate the dynamics of the capture economy on the basis
of new firm-level data from the 1999 Business Environment
and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS), which permits
the unbundling of corruption into meaningful and measurable
components. |
The
Council of Europe's Group of States Against Corruption (GRECO)
held the 5th
European Conference of specialised services in the fight
against corruption on 15-17 November 2000 in Istanbul,
Turkey.
Read Conclusions
from the Conference.
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