The principles and findings from internal government audits (aimed at generating recommendations to improve compliance with anti-corruption regulations) can greatly contribute to the wider anti-corruption literature. Internal audit techniques can overcome the weaknesses of the four predominant...

The World Bank sponsored anti-corruption programme in Bolivia seemed like the perfectly designed programme. It promoted participation, involved all of society's stakeholders, and focused on action-planning. Yet, like many other such initiatives, the promise did not live up to the potential - the...

Anti-corruption will feature prominently in Turkey's talks on EU accession. Despite claims to the contrary, the data show that corruption levels in Turkey are not radically different than those in many other accession countries. While Turkey already meets many of the requirements for negotiating...

This article looks at the range of educational and other anti-corruption projects in a specific country - Lithuania - in order to assess the optimality of the organic evolution of the National Anti-Corruption Training Programme. Policy recommendations given

Macedonian municipalities should pass anti-corruption ordinances in order to reduce corruption. The paper reviews the legal issues involved in drafting such ordinances and provides legal advisers to local councils with the legal and economic analysis needed to tackle some of the more difficult...

International organisations, like the UN and EU, have encouraged their member states for years to increase civil servants' compliance with particular codes of conduct. Romania represents probably one of the most advanced countries in attempting to legislate on civil servant ethics through its...