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    • A qualitative reframing of private sector corruption: Considerations from the natural resource sectors in South Africa 

      Bracking, Sarah (U4 Issue 2013:7, Research report, 2013-08-02)
      The currently used concept of private sector corruption does not cover new types of corruption that have emerged in response to the increasing complexity of the public-private boundary and the effects of more liberalized ...

    • Anti-Corruption and the Role of Chambers of Commerce and Business Associations 

      Weimer, Markus (U4 Brief 2007:12, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Recent initiatives such as the Global Compact (Principle 10) and the DAC Revised Principles for Donor Action in Anti-Corruption call for proactively engaging the private sector in anticorruption efforts. These are new, ...

    • Anti-Corruption Training and Education 

      Boehm, Frédéric; Nell, Mathias (U4 Brief 2007:13, Report, 2007-10-10)
      Corruption has gained significant attention in development discourse and practice. While anticorruption (AC) training is identified as a useful approach to fostering the development of broadbased alliances for demanding ...

    • Business Climate Surveys: Experiences from Ghana, Mozambique, and South Africa 

      Kaufmann, Friedrich; Madelung, Philip; Spatz, Julius; Wegmann, Mattia (U4 Brief 2008:4, Report, 2008-02-01)
      Improving the Business and Investment Climate (BIC) has become an important topic in the international discourse on private sector development. Partner governments and donor organisations alike have started to focus more ...

    • Changing Perspectives: How Donors can Work with the Private Sector to Reduce Corruption 

      Sullivan, John D.; Shkolnikov, Aleksandr (U4 Brief 2008:17, Report, 2008-05-30)
      Corrupt dealings by companies are often only a way to avoid inefficiency caused by weak regulations and institutions. While the private sector is commonly perceived to be a source of corruption, it is also a victim - with ...

    • Commitment, control and interest: A case study in operationalising ownership 

      Trivunovic, Marijana (U4 Practice Insight 2009:2, Report, 2009-09-02)
      How can donors promote national ownership in the projects and programmes they fund? How do national counterparts regard ownership? How to translate principles articulated in international documents, such as the Paris ...

    • Competition and corruption. What can the donor community do? 

      Søreide, Tina (U4 Brief 2007:8, Report, 2007-10-09)
      This Brief discusses how corruption might threaten the benefits of competition in a market. Corruption can result in too much market power for some firms and thus increase prices and negatively influence the supply of goods ...

    • Coping with corruption: Small and medium enterprises in Ghana 

      Amundsen, Inge (U4 Brief 2022:2, Report, 2022-06-01)
      Small firms seem to be more compliant when exposed to international standards and regulations as partners to multinationals.

    • Corruption and doing business in Serbia 

      Devine, Vera (U4 Brief 2007:11, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) have been described as ‘the backbone' of the economy of the Western Balkans.Indeed, with SMEs making up 99% of Serbian companies, employing 53% of the working population, this is ...

    • From Paris to the anti-corruption project: Examining the feasibility of ownership 

      Devine, Vera; Trivunovic, Marijana; Mathisen, Harald (U4 Practice Insight 2010:1, Report, 2010-01-04)
      This Practice Insight summarises lessons learned from four case studies conducted to examine what bearing the notion of ownership has on anti-corruption interventions involving the private sector. By demonstrating how ...

    • In pursuit of policy influence: Can lobbying be a legitimate alternative to corruption in developing countries? 

      Campos, Nauro F. (U4 Brief 2009:1, Report, 2009-01-20)
      This Brief reviews recent research on transition countries which suggests, conceptually and empirically, that lobbying is not only more prevalent in non–developed countries than currently thought, but can be more effective ...

    • Lobbying: the preconditions of an anti-corruption promise 

      Nownes, Anthony (U4 Issue 2017:8, Research report, 2017-07-01)
      Can lobbying be a realistic and legitimate alternative to corruption in less developed countries? This paper addresses this question by: (1) delineating the differences and similarities between lobbying and corruption; (2) ...

    • Measuring Private Sector Corruption 

      Rose-Ackerman, Susan (U4 Brief 2007:5, Report, 2007-10-09)
      How can donors engage effectively with new kinds of corruption - both in their home countries and in developing and emerging economies - and why is it important to act?

    • Multistakeholder partnerships as agents of integrity 

      Centre, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource (U4 Issue 2021:14, Research report, 2021-11-01)
      Combining the strengths of the private sector, public sector, and civil society, multistakeholder partnerships can be more than the sum of their parts. We examine the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network, the Infrastructure ...

    • Proxy indicators for the corrupt misuse of corporations 

      Fazekas, Mihály; Tóth, Bence (U4 Brief 2017:6, Report, 2017-10-01)
      Winners of the U4 Proxy Challenge 2016 We need more imaginative ways of addressing corruption. It is important to generate indicators that development agencies can use. U4 and DFID developed a proxy challenge competition ...

    • The anatomy of a failed anti corruption project: A case study from Nepal 

      Manandhar, Narayan (U4 Practice Insight 2009:3, Report, 2009-09-03)
      In 2004 and 2005, the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FNCCI) implemented the first anti‑corruption project involving the private sector in Nepal. Despite the novelty of a supply‑side intervention, ...

    • Understanding the Private Side of Corruption: New Kinds of Transparency, New Roles for Donors 

      Johnston, Michael (U4 Brief 2007:6, Report, 2007-10-09)
      Do we know enough about corruption in the private sector? This Brief discusses gaps in our knowledge and how donors can help tackle the problem. The goal is to improve both the dialogue and outcomes of anti-corruption ...