World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption

World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption:
"World Bank Strategy Targets Corruption
Plan Aims to Clean Up Bribe-Taking Countries
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, April 12, 2006; D05

Stepping up a fight against corruption that has become his signature issue, World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz yesterday presented a 'long-term strategy' for using the bank's money and expertise to help developing countries clean their governments of bribe-taking and other dishonest practices.
Wolfowitz said he will begin deploying anti-corruption teams in many World Bank country offices, requiring the bank staffers working on each 'high-risk' country to develop anti-corruption plans, and increasing investments in key areas such as judicial reform, among other measures.
His plans were outlined in a speech delivered in Jakarta, Indonesia, where Wolfowitz spent three years as U.S. ambassador in the 1980s. 'One of the biggest threats to development in many countries -- including this one -- is corruption,' he said."/.../