ABSTRACT
The last decade of the twentieth century has been, in the words of one commentator, a decade of remarkable international activity aimed at combating official corruption. Bribery of foreign public officials is listed as one of twenty-two international crimes by a leading publicist. Major aid donors have increasingly been including democratic reforms and observance of human rights as conditionality's for extending aid totalitarian governments. Indigenous spoliation continues unabated unless the countries that are the primary victims are involved in the solution. The idea of external intervention in support of democracy is found in the Copenhagen Document, one of a series of instruments adopted by the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). Indigenous spoliation is injurious to the economic well-being of a nation by draining it of scarce but vital resources needed for economic development. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also been active in the global fight against corruption, although it does not have a specific anti-corruption policy.
