Combating Corruption: Private Sector Perspectives and Solutions

CIPE and its partners have been at the forefront of combating corruption for the past twenty years. CIPE’s approach has been unique because it does not intend to place the burden of responsibility for corruption on government offi cials alone, as it is often done. Instead, by arguing that the private sector is also a participant in corruption, CIPE and its network of partners in over 90 countries have worked to design and implement local private sector solutions to the problem of corruption. In the coming years, the emphasis should be put on consolidating those eff orts and strengthening the global role of the private sector anti-corruption eff orts. Th e recent addition of the tenth anti-corruption principle to the U.N. Global Compact is one of the fi rst important steps in such process.