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The Rise and Rise of the Global Anti-Corruption Movement

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Corruption has been around since time immemorial, but systematic attempts to try and counteract it have not. On the contrary, what its supporters often call the ‘global anti-corruption movement’ and critics the ‘anti-corruption industry’ is a relatively new phenomenon. Indeed, it may well be possible to pinpoint the birth of cross-national attempts to co-ordinate analysis of, and responses to, corruption to one date; the 1st of October 1996. Not that attempts to tackle corruption started precisely then, but when James Wolfensohn, the then head of the World Bank, stood up and gave a speech denouncing what he termed the ‘cancer of corruption’, it became clear that for the international policy community tackling corruption was moving centre-stage.1

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Hough, D. (2013). The Rise and Rise of the Global Anti-Corruption Movement. In: Corruption, Anti-Corruption and Governance. Political Corruption and Governance series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137268716_2

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