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[Global Corruption Report 2005] Recommendations
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"Putting in place the right rules is not enough, however, given the widespread tolerance of corruption within the construction sector and given the frequent failure to enforce laws. Fortunately, actions to curb corruption within the sector are already being taken, by companies themselves, by the banks and export credit agencies (ECAs) that fund infrastructure projects, by civil society and by governments. A few of these initiatives, such as Transparency International’s Integrity Pact and the effort by leaders of some of the world’s largest construction companies to agree on corporate anti-corruption principles, were outlined in Chapter 1 (see pages 9–27). None of these actions by itself will change the situation. Both public and private actors, and the banks and ECAs that finance projects, need to work together to eliminate corruption. This chapter addresses recommendations to the different actors involved in the sector which, if followed with rigour, could materially reduce corruption. The recommendations distinguish between private and public clients because when it is public money that is being used to fund a project the standard of probity must be absolute. However, they acknowledge an overlap between the two spheres: a public contract is unlikely to be executed by the winning company exclusively, but rather by a web of subcontractors with potential for corruption at each private-to-private subcontracting level."(pg 66)
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2005
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