Managing Conflict of Interest in the Public Service
OECD Guidelines and Country Experiences
Conflicts
of interest have become a key issue in public debate world-wide. New forms
of conflict between individual private interests of public officials and
their public duties arise as the public sector has become increasingly
commercialized and works more closely with the business and non-profit
sectors. Governments need to ensure that public officials perform their
duties in a fair and unbiased way. The pressure comes from a society and a
business community that are increasingly well-informed, and specifically
from a general demand for unbiased and transparent public decision-making.
The report includes the OECD Guidelines that provide the first international benchmark in this field. They are designed to provide a practical framework of reference for governments to review and modernize their conflict-of-interest policies and practice. The report highlights trends, approaches and models across OECD countries in a comparative overview that also presents examples of innovative and recent solutions. Selected country case studies give more details on the implementation of policies in national contexts and on key elements of legal and institutional frameworks.
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