The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the treaty organization of the world’s most economically developed democracies, has since 1999 been on a mission to end foreign bribery. In that year the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions (“the OECD Convention”) went into effect. This OECD Convention, now signed by 38 countries (“the Member Countries”), requires each country to enact and enforce tough anti-corruption legislation. But the OECD Convention was more than just an exercise in high-sounding pronouncements. Rather, this is an organization that actually follows up and puts pressure on members to make the commitment meaningful. Click here to read the entire report.