Helping Countries Combat Corruption: The Role of the World Bank

Helping Countries Combat Corruption: The Role of the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Economic Management The World Bank September 1997 Read the complete report in PDF format (254K) Contents: Preface Foreword 1. Key Messages
2. Corruption and Economic Development
	How do we define corruption? What are the causes of corruption? What do economics and political science tell us? What is the Bank's experience?
3. A Bank Strategy for Tackling Corruption
	The Bank's legal mandate The Bank's fiduciary responsibility Helping countries combat corruption Contributing to international efforts
4. Controlling Corruption in Bank-financed Projects
	Procurement Codes, pacts, and pledges Loan disbursement
5. Helping Countries Reform Economic and Sector Policies
	Deregulation and the expansion of markets Policy advice when government continues to play a role
6. Helping Countries Strengthen Institutions
	Public management reform Legal and judicial reform Civil society and the media
7. Mainstreaming a Concern for Corruption in Bank Activities
	Economic work Country assistance strategies and the country dialogue Lending program Procurement and financial management External agency practices and public sector management Staffing implications
8. International Efforts
	Current international initiatives Bank actions at the international level
9. Concluding Thoughts
Appendix
	The International Finance Institution's approach to combating fraud and corruption in project finance The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency's approach to combat-ing fraud and corruption in guarantees