Progress Report 2015

The Exporting Corruption Progress Report 2015 presents findings on countries with companies involved in international business.These companies belong to countries that are signatories to the OECD Convention that deals with foreign-related corruption issues.

Title of the report:

Progress Report 2015: Assessing Enforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery

This report found that “About half of the Convention countries have failed to prosecute any foreign bribery case since 1999”. There are 20 countries with “little or no enforcement” and there 9 “countries with only limited enforcement”.

Enforcement Levels
There are only 4 countries with around 22 percent of world exports that are actively enforcement the convention – US, Germany, United Kingdom and Switzerland.

There are 6 countries with almost 9 percent of world exports that are enforcing the Convention moderately. These are Italy, Canada, Australia, Austria, Norway and Finland.

There are 9 countries with limited enforcement and they has over 12 percent of world exports. These countries include: Frances, Netherlands, South Korea, Sweden, Hungary, South Africa, Portugal, Greece, and New Zealand.

Surprisingly, there are more countries that have “little or no enforcement”. There are 20 of them and they have over 20 percent of world exports. These are Japan, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Mexico, Brazil, Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Denmark, Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Argentina, Chile, Israel, Slovak Republic, Colombia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Estonia.

Key Findings:
There are some changes in enforcement level as found by this report for 2014 and 2015.

As aforementioned, South Korea, Netherlands and Greece has moved from ‘little or no enforcement’ to ‘limited enforcement’.

Norway moved from ‘limited enforcement’ up to ‘moderate enforcement’. However, Argentina has regressed from ‘limited enforcement’ down to ‘little or no enforcement’.

The main objective of this report is not to ‘name and shame’ but for two major reasons: to encourage countries (and businesses) do more something about foreign bribery problems, and secondly, by suggesting to business entities to improve their anti-corruption and bribery policies or establish a system that can efficiently curb or eliminate such issues that are affecting globally.

You can find the full report here: Exporting Corruption_2015