Financial Transparency Coalition

by Gillian Dell, Fritz Heimann  (gdell@transparency.org) Published by Transparency International Transparency International (TI) Progress Report tracks the enforcement status of OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (also known as OECD Anti-Bribery Convention) in signatory countries. This year saw the 4th report, documenting the advances and obstacles in convention

A November 2008 report from Christian Aid. This report looks at how poor countries have suffered from the same combination of secrecy and lax regulation that triggered the current international crisis.

A new report by the Task Force’s lead organization, Global Financial Integrity, entitled “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2002-2006,” shows that the developing world is losing an increasing amount of money through illicit capital flight each year. Moreover, the value of the illicit flows surpasses the amount of Official Development Assistance entering those countries