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Over the last decade, Asian and
Pacific societies have realized to what extent corruption damages their social
welfare, political stability and economic growth.
Twenty-seven countries of the region have committed to
taking action against corruption.
In the framework of the ADB OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative, they have developed the
Anti-Corruption Action
Plan for Asia and the
Pacific and work together towards its implementation
The Initiative is jointly managed by the OECD and the ADB. Its Secretariat supports the countries' efforts to build up effective and sustainable anti-corruption mechanisms through fostering policy dialogue, policy analysis, capacity building and donor coordination, and by providing an extensive online database on the region's fight against corruption.
The Initiative
emerged from a
workshop on Combating
Corruption in the Asian and Pacific Economies organized in autumn 1999 by
the
Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). A year
later, 36 member countries of the two organizations officially launched the
ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific at a
conference held in Seoul,
Korea. The countries appointed an expert group to draft
an
Anti-Corruption Action
Plan, the Initiative's
main instrument
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