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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
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New U.S. Anti-Corruption Law
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| The 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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| Country
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Slovakia |
| The Governmemt 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. |
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.
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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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| Regional
Initiatives |
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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. |
| International 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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