The Anti-corruption Resource Centre calls asset recovery "one of the greatest challenges for the global anti-corruption movement".
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/63/prepub Sofe of the authors' thinking was informed by their work on an issues paper for the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, as cited in the paper.
Create new drug payment systems that ensure against corruption: In resource poor settings health workers divert some of the drugs that are supposed to be free and sell them to the patients that can't afford them.
Despite the relatively better performance of the Kurdistan region in the expansion of health infrastructure, poor governance, corruption and resource mismanagement have slowed down the pace of development also in this region [ 26].
Such disclosure would not solve the problem of corruption in resource-rich developing countries.
This has become one of the most striking recent trends in CSR.The mining industry, for example, has joined with governments in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), launched in 2002 by Tony Blair, then Britain's prime minister, to tackle the problem of government corruption in resource-rich countries.
Social disruptions like war, crime and corruption divert resources from areas of greatest human need, damage the capacity of societies to plan for the future, and generally threaten human well-being and the environment.
But Wolfensohn's argument was persuasive and beautifully simple: because corruption diverts resources from the poor to the rich, because it increases the cost of running businesses, because it distorts public expenditures and deters foreign investors, we need to fight it.
With surveys reporting that 80% of individuals in developing countries have experienced health sector corruption, these resource-poor populations are disproportionately impacted [ 4, 7, 8].
But resource corruption as practiced in Equatorial Guinea is already against the law.
