Tag: anticorruption

10th January 2018 Vienna, Austria

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by Leigh Turner

Ambassador to Austria and UK Permanent Representative to the United Nations and other International Organisations in Vienna

How the UK and UNODC are working together to tackle corruption

A corrupt official takes an illegal bribe. Why does matter? And if it does matter, what can we do about it? This isn’t just about morality.  Research shows that corruption raises the cost of doing business and reduces economic growth.  A 1% reduction in corruption perception scores can raise growth by 0.57% in developed economies […]

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12th May 2016 Washington DC, USA

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by Kim Darroch

British Ambassador to the USA

London summit brings together public and private sectors to fight corruption

Corruption is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world’s problems. It erodes trust, undermines stability, and breeds injustice. It’s costly in so many ways — estimates by the World Economic Forum show that corruption sets the global economy back by $2.6 trillion. And the World Bank has estimated that corruption adds to global […]

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