Few Countries Make Good on OECD Anti-Bribery Pledge
Oct. 23—Despite a 15-year-old promise to do so, many of the world’s leading economies are failing to do enough to prevent corruption and bribery. The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Anti-Bribery Convention, adopted in 1997, was a pledge by 41 countries to make foreign bribery a crime. Years later, ...
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