Fighting corruption in Asia : causes, effects, and remedies / editors, John Kidd, Frank-Jürgen Richter.

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Fundamental changes within economies are needed to create arm's-length relations between governments, corporations, and banks. We are taking risks when investing in the future, and risk-taking demands openness and truthfulness from the agents we employ. If investors and accountants can concur on the degree of disclosure that is morally right we may come to some global agreement on what constitutes corruption - but to do this we have to bring together those who advocate profit-making with those who see this as usury; and we have to care for the future in novel ways - unknown in the past - so as to allow firms to be locally inefficient (apparently) while preserving the environment. This text examines the prevailing situation in Asia and considers how little some governments are doing to guide their institutions towards probity and transparency. While fundamental changes are needed around the globe, it is in the developing nations that there is scope for radical change in the near future, as their institutions are recreated to meet the modern world. Once developed and functioning their managers will have the opportunity to facilitate and re-direct the institutions in the developed world, which happen to be more conservative than their own.

List of Contributors ; Chapter 1 Introduction: Corruption and Its Measures ; Introduction ; The Measurement of Corruption ; The Business of Asian Business ; The Structure of the Book ; References ; Chapter 2 The OECD Convention and Asia ; Introduction

OECD Anti-Corruption Efforts The Recommendations ; The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises ; The OECD Principles for Corporate Governance ; Globalizing the Fight against Corruption ; Are Anti-Corruption Efforts Working? ; References

Chapter 3 The Asian Money Laundering Explosion What Is Money Laundering? ; The Increased Relevance of Asia in the Global Money Laundering Dynamic ; Money Laundering Typologies in Asia ; Offshore Financial Centres in Asia -- A Growing Threat

A Country by Country Evaluation of Money Laundering Problems in Asia References and Further Reading ; Chapter 4 Corruption in Context ; Introduction ; Characteristics ; Comment is Superfluous ; Social Pressures ; Indonesia ; Reform ; References

Chapter 5 Is the 21st Century 'The Age of Asia-Pacific Region'? Hopes and Expectations as Viewed from East Russia Introduction ; The Definition of Corruption ; The Main Organized Crimes in the Far East of Russia ; A Short Overview of the Situation in the Far East Countries beyond Russia

Comparisons of Fights against Corruption -- as a Way of Perfecting of Russian Legislation

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