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IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

IN THIS ISSUEJust two months since you have read on these very same pages an exclusive interview with the leading regional anti-corruptioner, the head of Slovene Commission for Preventing Corruption and Chairperson of the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption (GRECO), Drago Kos, we present yet another exclusive interview in this issue. Yale University Professor Susan Rose-Ackerman, one of the leading experts in corruption, recommends what one government should do in order to be considered anti-corruptive. PhD Rose- Ackerman, who in particular studies the link between corruption and economic development and having substantial experience with post-communist countries, recommends establishing of an anti-corruption alliance, comprised of the NGO sector, businessmen, administration and politicians.This summer is marked by another significant event related to the global combat against corruption. G-20 tabled the corruption on its last summit in Canada and set up a group that would fight this evil.In the neighborhood, a poll of the ‘Gallup’ agency shows that up to 90 percent of respondents consider that business climate has plunged deeply into corruption, while 80 percent believe for the judiciary to be one of the main strongholds of the corruption.In our regular analyses, we refer to the role of whistleblowers in corruption and organized crime. While this instrument is close to non-functional in our country, it has been frequently used in the United States and developed Asian countries. Two moments are considered vital for the functioning of whistle-blowing: institutions to really do something after being informed on corruptive activity and offer serious protection to good-will...

In this issue:You have the latest issue of the Anti-Corruption newsletter (MAK). First of all we wish to thank to all of those who responded to our poll by which we wish to hear how satisfied you are with our newsletter and collect your proposals, suggestions for its further development. We are also reminding and kindly asking those who failed to respond, to do that as soon as possible, as your opinions are of vital importance for an improvement of our performance. We shall present your proposals and suggestions in the next issue. We are now carefully reviewing your ideas to be able to immediately apply them in the next issues’ articles.In this issue we are presenting two similar cases for fining corruption acts in two countries in different part of the world that have different social structure and believes. The United States and China have punished prominent citizens for their involvement in corruption activities. In both countries, the penalties are considered to be a message to the societies about the hard stand of the authorities against the crime. In neighboring Greece, after a series of mass, violent protests, the government had to promise it would cleanse up the corruption in politics and restore public trust.Our associate, anti-corruption expert Mihajlova, writes about the need of larger transparency of the budget, as a crucial instrument for participation of citizens and democratic control of the procedure for approving the budget and spending the funds. In this regard the experiences of two countries form different parts of the...

In this issue:You have the latest issue of the Anti-Corruption newsletter (MAK). First of all we wish to thank to all of those who responded to our poll by which we wish to hear how satisfied you are with our newsletter and collect your proposals, suggestions for its further development. We are also reminding and kindly asking those who failed to respond, to do that as soon as possible, as your opinions are of vital importance for an improvement of our performance. We shall present your proposals and suggestions in the next issue. We are now carefully reviewing your ideas to be able to immediately apply them in the next issues’ articles.In this issue we are presenting two similar cases for fining corruption acts in two countries in different part of the world that have different social structure and believes. The United States and China have punished prominent citizens for their involvement in corruption activities. In both countries, the penalties are considered to be a message to the societies about the hard stand of the authorities against the crime. In neighboring Greece, after a series of mass, violent protests, the government had to promise it would cleanse up the corruption in politics and restore public trust.Our associate, anti-corruption expert Mihajlova, writes about the need of larger transparency of the budget, as a crucial instrument for participation of citizens and democratic control of the procedure for approving the budget and spending the funds. In this regard the experiences of two countries form different parts of the...

In this issue:You have the latest issue of the Anti-Corruption newsletter (MAK). First of all we wish to thank to all of those who responded to our poll by which we wish to hear how satisfied you are with our newsletter and collect your proposals, suggestions for its further development. We are also reminding and kindly asking those who failed to respond, to do that as soon as possible, as your opinions are of vital importance for an improvement of our performance. We shall present your proposals and suggestions in the next issue. We are now carefully reviewing your ideas to be able to immediately apply them in the next issues’ articles.In this issue we are presenting two similar cases for fining corruption acts in two countries in different part of the world that have different social structure and believes. The United States and China have punished prominent citizens for their involvement in corruption activities. In both countries, the penalties are considered to be a message to the societies about the hard stand of the authorities against the crime. In neighboring Greece, after a series of mass, violent protests, the government had to promise it would cleanse up the corruption in politics and restore public trust.Our associate, anti-corruption expert Mihajlova, writes about the need of larger transparency of the budget, as a crucial instrument for participation of citizens and democratic control of the procedure for approving the budget and spending the funds. In this regard the experiences of two countries form different parts of the...

In this issue:You have the latest issue of the Anti-Corruption newsletter (MAK). First of all we wish to thank to all of those who responded to our poll by which we wish to hear how satisfied you are with our newsletter and collect your proposals, suggestions for its further development. We are also reminding and kindly asking those who failed to respond, to do that as soon as possible, as your opinions are of vital importance for an improvement of our performance. We shall present your proposals and suggestions in the next issue. We are now carefully reviewing your ideas to be able to immediately apply them in the next issues’ articles.In this issue we are presenting two similar cases for fining corruption acts in two countries in different part of the world that have different social structure and believes. The United States and China have punished prominent citizens for their involvement in corruption activities. In both countries, the penalties are considered to be a message to the societies about the hard stand of the authorities against the crime. In neighboring Greece, after a series of mass, violent protests, the government had to promise it would cleanse up the corruption in politics and restore public trust.Our associate, anti-corruption expert Mihajlova, writes about the need of larger transparency of the budget, as a crucial instrument for participation of citizens and democratic control of the procedure for approving the budget and spending the funds. In this regard the experiences of two countries form different parts of the...