print email comment close The World Bank Group: Anticorruption URL: http://www.worldbank.org/publicsector/anticorrupt/ Description: This site provides a strategy to reduce corruption, which the site considers to be the "greatest obstacle to economic and social development" because corruption "sabotages policies and programs that aim to reduce poverty." Discusses the costs and consequences of corruption and solutions such as increased political accountability and institutional restraints on power. Includes diagnostic tools for evaluating government performance, information about corruption for private firms and for specific countries, annotated bibliographies, and more. Publisher: The World Bank Group Library of Congress Subject Headings: Economic development Political corruption LII Database Information: Record 8858 created by Sybil Finemel on 05/09/2004 Last modification on 11/07/2005 Published: 05/09/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/8858