How to Make a Convention Work: The OECD Recommendation and Convention on Bribery as an example of a new horizon in international law
Article from: OGEL 5 (2003), in Corruption
Summary
The corruption of one person by another is as old as human nature itself, and efforts to regulate its perpetration by individuals, governments and industry, span the centuries. In very recent years the fight against its deleterious effects have taken on a dynamism hardly credible a decade ago. This accomplishment is particularly apparent in the OECD initiative against bribery in international business transactions which culminated in the Recommendation and Convention of 1997. The path leading to these instruments became something of a high speed track during its evolution with several ...