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Malaysia Plans to Offer Whistleblower Awards as Part of New Anti-Corruption Strategy

Whistleblower Network News

On May 7, the Malaysian government launched its 2024-2028 National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS), a continuation of its 2019 National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP) that ended in 2023. billion per year and, using figures from the World Bank, make the average cost of corruption around 3% of annual GDP.

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Mongolia: Investment Related Developments in the Mining Sector

Kluwer Arbitration

Unless and until Mongolia embraces a stable business environment that transparently creates and predictably implements laws and regulations, investors will likely find Mongolia too risky and opt for more competitive countries. million in 2015. million to $4.5 However, this trend reversed in subsequent years, with FDI declining to $2.0

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Where does pressure for public procurement transparency come from? Reflections from Uganda and Tanzania

Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

For years, the benefits of transparency as a policy tool to increase accountability and counter corruption have been lauded. In public procurement, this has given rise to a global movement promoting procurement data transparency, a.k.a. open contracting. But what do these commitments look like in reality?

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Looking into Antonio Costa legacy as PM from a procurement perspective

Telles.eu

With today's announcement of his resignation on the back of a corruption probe, the time of Antonio Costa as Portuguese Prime-Minister reached its end. In 2017 I voiced significant concerns about the creation of a new non-transparent procedure to partially replace direct awards. But fashionably late it was nonetheless.

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Innovation procurement under the Procurement Act 2023 -- changing procurement culture on the cheap?

How to Crack a Nut

The guidance also indicates that ‘ Greater transparency of procurement data will make it easier to see what approaches have been successful and encourage use of those approaches more widely across the public sector.’ 48 and 46 PCR 2015). 30 PCR 2015). And we know this is a process that is very difficult to push forward.

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The 3 revolutions of public procurement in Africa

Open Contracting Partnership

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. And despite the reforms aimed at improving accountability, perceptions of corruption in public procurement remained high.

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New VIAC Selected Arbitral Awards Published Through the ITA Arbitration Report and Kluwer Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration

The first volume of selected arbitral awards was published in 2015 on the occasion of VIAC’s 40th anniversary and consisted of 60 awards. It served as VIAC’s response to the increasing call of parties, counsel and arbitrators alike for greater transparency in arbitration through enhanced access to arbitral awards and their reasoning.