Continuing from yesterday's rant...
The same article in Foreign Affairs, 'The Long War Against Corruption' contains this next piece of intersting advice for governments and multi-nationals (I will intersperse my own thoughts after relevant items in parentheses), "To complement formal enforcement measures, developed nations must also take preventive actions, for example, by instituting whistle-blower protection laws (g - so far so good), government hot-lines (g - OK), and new accounting and auditing requirements (g - great!). Another important change would be to encourage corporations to voluntarily disclose evidence of bribery that they uncover during internal audits or through ombudsman activities (g - no argument from me). In exchange (g - uh-oh...) for reporting both supply and demand side corruption issues, corporations (g - uh, what about governments?) at fault (although not culpable individuals) should receive lenient sanctions in settlements (g - wtf? the corporation, which is made up of it's employees the last time I checked and not just rogue desk-jockeys, gets off but the sales representative on site gets the shaft? What about his boss and his boss and the executives and the directors? What if they're all complicit? Oh yeah, I remember now from yesterday, the people are unimportant)."
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