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Article: The effectiveness of the World Bank's anti-corruption efforts: current legal and structural obstacles and uncertainties.
- Article from:
- Denver Journal of International Law and Policy
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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I. INTRODUCTION
Corruption is widely considered the single most severe impediment to development and growth in developing countries. (1) Corruption in developing countries is not simply a domestic problem, but often involves a variety of actors within and outside of developing countries. Curbing cross-border, or transnational, corruption through legal channels raises unique legal and administrative issues of jurisdiction, investigative cooperation and conflict of laws that may not exist in purely domestic anti-corruption efforts. These issues have led to numerous multilateral efforts to control transnational corruption, including the OECD Convention on Combating ...