ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the essence of the available body of knowledge on corruption and anti-corruption initiatives. Corruption is a global phenomenon that exists in a variety of forms and its mutating forms often make it difficult to identify. Corruption is further classified as: political corruption, economic corruption, and public administration corruption. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Convention is recognized as the most significant anti-corruption initiative. The OECD Working Group on Bribery in International Business Transactions, which is composed of representatives of all the Convention signatories, conducts the individual country reviews in two steps based on the complementary systems of self and mutual evaluation. The first step is a comprehensive assessment of the extent to which the country's antibribery laws conform to the OECD Convention. The second step involves one week of meetings with ranking officials from government, law enforcement, corporations, trade unions, and civil society in the country being reviewed.
