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Discuss the role and function of the OECD (Organisatio for Economic Co-operation and Development).

Australian Federal Police office Benjamin Joseph Hampton charged with 12 corruption and bribery offences

What is OECD

  • The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international economic organisation of 34 countries
  • Founded in 1961
  • It is a forum of countries committed to democracy and the market economy
  • Providing a platform to compare
  • policy experiences,
  • seek answers to common problems, identify good practices and
  • coordinate domestic and international policies of members

Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund chief, under investigation in French corruption probe

He is facing a dozen charges including:

  • Two conunts of receiving a bribe as a Commonwealth Public Official
  • Two conuts of receiving a corrupting benefit as a Commonwealth public official
  • Two counts of abuse of public office
  • Four counts of unauthorise access to data held in a computer with intent to commit a serious Commonwealth offence
  • Two counts of divulge/communicate prescribed information
  • in 2008 Lagarde, France's finance minister
  • 400 million euros to businessman Tapie
  • unusual decision to handle the case by private arbitration, not through the French legal system
  • The charge 1 year in prison and a fine of 15,000 euros.

The Inter-American Convention against Corruption

The European Union Convention on the Fight against Corruption Involving Officials of the European Communities or Officials of Member States

Role and Function of the OECD

  • The OECD acts by peer pressure to improve policy and implement "soft law"—non-binding instruments that can occasionally lead to binding treaties.
  • Cooperates with businesses, trade unions and other representatives of civil society.
  • Collaboration at the OECD regarding taxation, for example, has fostered the growth of a global web of bilateral tax treaties.

The OECD promotes policies designed:

  • to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in Member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to the development of the world economy;
  • to contribute to sound economic expansion in Member as well as nonmember countries in the process of economic development; and
  • to contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, nondiscriminatory basis in accordance with international obligations.

Major Inter-Governmental Anti-Corruption Instruments

  • The OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions
  • The OECD Revised Recommendation on Combating Bribery in International Business Transactions
  • The Forty Financial Action Task Force Recommendations
  • The Inter-American Convention against Corruption
  • The European Union Convention on the Fight against Corruption Involving Officials of the European Communities or Officials of Member States
  • The Council of Europe Criminal Law Convention against Corruption
  • The Council of Europe Civil Law Convention against Corruption
  • The Southern African Development Community Protocol on Corruption
  • The United Nations Draft Convention against Corruption

In particular, describe and evaluate the anti-bribery and anti-corruption intitiatives of this organisation.

Use at least two recent cases of corruption/bribery that have been analysed in the financial press to illustrate the problem of corruption that the OECD is trying to address.

Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption

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