Tips for covering corruption

1. Transparency International

• This international agency at www.transparency.org is the leading web site on government corruption.
• Every year they do a survey on corruption and rank the countries. The 2001 survey is at http://www.transparency.org/documents/cpi/2001/cpi2001.html#cpi and you can see where your country is ranked. The Corruption Perceptions Index 2001 ranks 91 countries. Almost two-thirds of the countries ranked in the new index score less than 5 out of a clean score of 10
• You can consult the list of their national chapters to see if one is operating in your country at http://www.transparency.org/contact/index.html.
• Check out their What’s New page at http://www.transparency.org/whats-new/index.html to see the latest and archived press releases
• They also have an excellent list of links at http://www.transparency.org/site-tools/links.html and you can see if there are resources or government bodies listed from your country

2 . World Bank

• The World Bank’s main corruption page is at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/
• The Anti Corruption Help Center is at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/helping.htm . There is also a list of World Bank speeches and programs at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/links.htm
• A list of programs in various countries is at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/inventory.htm, You can see if your country had special programs financed by the World Bank.
  (To read these lists, you will need the Adobe Reader, which is free to download at http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html)
• Finally, helpful academic readings and documents are at http://www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/reading.htm

3.OECD:

• The main OECD anti-corruption site is at http://www1.oecd.org/daf/nocorruption/index.htm for policy briefs and reports.

OECD – Money laundering:

• The OECD has excellent information from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering at http://www.fatf-gafi.org. You can consult press releases at http://www.fatf-gafi.org/Newsarchive_en.htm and also see if your country is one of those that has not complied with international standards (at http://www.fatf-gafi.org/NCCT_en.htm)

OECD – AnCorr (Anti Corruption Online)

• AnCorr provides you with the latest news and development at http://www1.oecd.org/daf/nocorruptionweb/index.htm
• You can get a bibliography on books about the subject in your region at http://www1.oecd.org/daf/nocorruptionweb/worldregions.htm

4. United Nations Development Program

• From its main website on democratic governance at http://magnet.undp.org/, you can select any country and go to their website where you will find resources and news about your region

5. Other web resources for business criticism:

• Corpwatch at www.corpwatch.org
• More resources at www.journalismnet.com/business/criticism.htm and www.journalismnet.com/alternate
• See also our other resource page on Finding information on Countries