What Have We Achieved?

This chapter reviews the progress that has been made over the last twenty-five years of fighting corruption. First, the issue has been pushed up on the political agenda, and governments are elected on an anticorruption ticket; others are deposed for corruption. Second, laws have been enacted in most nation-states, and even if enforcement remains uneven, the risks of being caught and subjected to trials have grown substantially. Additionally, every year there is at least one major conference uniting governments, NGOs, and increasingly also the private sector against corruption. The official anticorruption groups have multiplied, including now the OECD Working Group on Bribery (WGB), the Anti-Corruption Working Groups of the G20 and of the B20, and the work on corruption of the Global Compact, among others.

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