The study regarding corruption carried out by the world bank

• Author: W. G. Brînzã
• Position: Faculty of Law, Law Department
• Pages: 7-10

AGORA International Journal of Juridical Sciences, www.juridicaljournal.univagora.ro

ISSN 1843-570X, E-ISSN 2067-7677

No. 1 (2014), pp. 7-10

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THE STUDY REGARDING CORRUPTION CARRIED OUT BY THE

WORLD BANK

W. G. Brînz

William Gabriel Brînz

Faculty of Law, Law Department

“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, Romania

*Correspondence: William Gabriel Brînz, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, 176

Splaiul Unirii, 4th District, Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: william@williameuropa.eu

Abstract

For a long period of time, corruption was accepted as being an inevitable fact of life.

Corruption in the 27 EU member states undermines citizens' fundamental rights, good

governance and the rule of law. In 2000, the World Bank carried out a study about corruption

at the request of the Romanian Government. The elaboration process and the implementation

of an anticorruption strategy depend on the state’s politics and priorities.

Keywords: corruption, World Bank, worldwide, the impact

Introduction

Corruption – a worldwide affair

For a long period of time, corruption was accepted as being an inevitable fact of life.

Recently, despite the fact that there wasn’t any opinion which considers corruption a major

threat in the way to evolution, a factor which affects the constitutional state, the democracy or

the economic perspectives of the society, there has been a dramatic change of attitude

worldwide. This thing can be explained by an adjunction of extremely different factors, which

allowed corruption to install in the top problems of mankind.

The United States of America, after the follow-up the scandals Watergate and

Lockheed, adopted a legislation intended f or the prevention on “illicit payments in the

international transactions”. The American’s wish to elaborate a convention project in the

U.N. failed in 1979, no state from the Eastern or Western Europe wasn’t ready for such an

approach against the corruption phenomenon1.

Starting with the ‘80s, once the attention towards economic crime organized by the

penal politics grew, and once the internal scandals of corruption burst, industrial count ries

all over the world made the first steps in taking an attitude against this phenomenon.

Relatively recently, a lot of scandals hit different parts of the world. Thus, in Asia,

after the fall of the Indonesian president Suharto, his family was attacked several times,

existing the proof that the state was prejudiced by the former administration, which declined

the implementation of reforms and has extorted billions from the national wealth.

In Pakistan, the prime minister, Benazier Bhutto, and in India, the prime minister, P.V.

Maraschima Kao, were both expunged from the government due to corruption incriminations.

In South Korea, the former presidents Rah Tae Woo and Chan Doo Hwan were both

incarcerated being accused of tak ing bribe from c ertain Korean companies. In Japan, a great

number of leaders of the government and important businessmen were the targets of the

corruption scandals and accusations.

1 V. Dobrinoiu, p. 48.