Are Less Corrupt Countries More Faithful Enforcers of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention?

Are Less Corrupt Countries More Faithful Enforcers of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention? by Phil Underwood

The failure of many signatories to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention to enforce their new laws against the bribery of foreign public officials has been widely noted, including on this blog. There is no single factor that explains this lack of enforcement across the 30 or so countries (out of 41 total signatories) that have not yet seriously begun enforcing their anti-bribery laws. However, there is a fair amount of descriptive evidence about the extent to which signatories actually do so: Transparency International (TI) has, for the last nine years, released annual reports on progress, which provide a good deal of information on this level.http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2014/08/25/bribery-payments-cpi-and-anti-bribery-enforcement/