Davos Manifesto 2020 / Public contractors compliance / CPI 2019 infographic

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Davos Manifesto 2020: The Universal Purpose of a Company in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.  “A company serves its customers by providing a value proposition that best meets their needs. It accepts and supports fair competition and a level playing field. It has zero tolerance for corruption.”

World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/12/davos-manifesto-2020-the-universal-purpose-of-a-company-in-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/

 

Requiring Public Contractors To Have Anticorruption Compliance Programs May Sound Like a Good Idea—But Not When Government Capacity Is Lacking (Blog).  “…as long as the public administration is not sufficiently prepared to evaluate the genuine effectiveness of such programs, imposing them by law is likely to generate unnecessary costs and frictions without producing meaningful substantive improvements in corporate policies or culture.”

Victor Aguiar de Carvalho/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2020/01/17/requiring-public-contractors-to-have-anticorruption-compliance-programs-may-sound-like-a-good-idea-but-not-when-government-capacity-is-lacking/

 

Where Corruption Is Rampant [Infographic].  “Despite anti-corruption movements gaining momentum around the world last year, the research found that a staggering number of countries have showed little to no improvement in tackling the problem.”

Niall McCarthy/Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2020/01/24/where-corruption-is-rampant-infographic/  

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