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Login: Password: Forum | Make a Journal Entry | View Journal Entries | Submit An Article | Make as StartPage Homepage Register Forgot password News Business Politics Sport City Diary Features Special Report Behind The News Art & Review Editorial Comment Letters Right Of Reply e-Business Law & Judiciary REAL ESTATE Education Development THISDAY Extra THISDAY Saturday THISDAY Sunday ARCHIVE     LINKS City Guides Hotels Business Exhibition Business Services Nigerian.TV Capital Markets Shops Domains WEB HOSTING Family Trees E-Africa.info E-Nigeria.net FlightsSearch.net MailingBox.net Payments   ThisDay question Is President Olusegun Obasanjo's proposed National Dialogue the way forward for Nigeria? Yes No Indifferent View results No Country is Corruption-Free, Says World Bank From Kunle Aderinokun in Abuja , 12.13.2004 The World Bank has observed that no country is free of  Corrupt practices since countries rated highest in terms of ethics still practice some measures of corruption. A statement by the Director of Global Governance at the World Bank Institute, Mr. Daniel Kaufmann, noted that, "there is no such thing as zero corruption, even in countries that rate at the highest levels in terms of ethics and the control of corruption." Kaufmann, who made the comment in a radio interview with Corporate Communication as the Bank Group   to mark the first anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, said the standard definition of the phenomenon, "the abuse of public office for private gain", was too narrow and does not include more subtle and complex forms of corruption. "These," according to him, "may not include outright bribery but include such actions as influence peddling and political financing that unduly influence laws and policies for the benefit of the few." He said hat one does not fight corruption by "fighting corruption," noting that, "Merely embarking on more campaigns, adopting more anti-corruption laws, or creating anti-corruption commissions will not do." He said instead, "the answer is to take a complex, systemic view of all the institutions and governance components in a country." He added that in addition to the political resolve from the country leadership to reform key institutions and adopt far-reaching transparency measures, one "litmus test" of success in this area is to have a steady, credible stream of prosecutions against those key figures involved in corruption, including "the big fish, and not necessarily always from the political opposition or the previous government."         REMAIN INFORMED WE SEND IT TO YOUR MAIL THISDAY NEWSLETTER Name E-Mail   Who We Are | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000-2004 Leaders & Company Limited This Site Created by White Pages Limited

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