[ap-intact] CALL FOR ENTRIES: How to Pay a Bribe - Editorial Contest

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TRACE International, a private anti-bribery compliance support and consulting firm, is accepting submissions for its next edition of How to Pay a Bribe — the biennial collection of stories exposing real-world bribery schemes in the international business context. Entries must not exceed 3,500 words and must be original, unpublished work, submitted by June 30, 2015.

For more information, please download the PDF info sheet at http://www.traceinternational.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/How-to-Pay-a-Bribe-Editorial-Contest.pdf

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