Fifteen years after the Convention entered into force, there are still 22
countries with Little or No Enforcement and eight countries with only Limited
Enforcement. As a result, the Convention’s fundamental goal of creating a
corruption-free level playing field for global trade is still far from being
achieved. The Convention will not reach this goal until the parties with lagging
enforcement meet their commitments under the Convention. Foreign bribery
is not an abstract phenomenon; it has damaging consequences in the form of
contracts not going to the best qualified suppliers, prices often being inflated
to cover bribe payments, environmental requirements not being enforced
and taxes not being collected.
Read more: Exporting Corruption 2014