A guest blog by Ryan Carter, a law student at Arizona State University who is undertaking a legal research internship at the Basel Institute on Governance.
This document compiles participating countries’ own listings of the steps they have taken and plan to take to ratify and implement the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, as of the December 2012 Working Group on Bribery meeting.
The responsibility for governments to address bribe solicitation derives from internationally recognised anticorruption standards all of which prohibit the ‘demand side’ of bribery, namely, the solicitation by a public official of an undue advantage.