Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Curbing Corruption in Tsunami Relief Operations written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean tsunami that hit South and Southeast Asia in December 2004 was one of the worst natural calamities of recent times, the scale of the devastation to coastal communities across the region almost incomprehensible. As befits a disaster ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Asset Recovery and Mutual Legal Assistance in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-04-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asian-Pacific countries have made significant efforts to address weaknesses in their procurement frameworks and practices. To support these efforts and to assist the ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative’s 28 member countries in strengthening their ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific The Criminalisation of Bribery in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews Asian countries' implementation of United Nations Convention Against Corruption Articles 15, 16 and 26 (domestic and foreign bribery by natural and legal persons).
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Strategies for Business Government and Civil Society to Fight Corruption in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings explores (i) incentives for anti-corruption reform; (ii) the role of criminal law standards and corporate compliance mechanisms; (iii) private-to-private corruption; (iv) preventing and managing conflicts of interest and (v)involving development partners.
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Mutual Legal Assistance Extradition and Recovery of Proceeds of Corruption in Asia and the Pacific Frameworks and Practices in 27 Asian and Pacific Jurisdictions Final Report written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the legal and institutional framework for extradition and mutual legal assistance in corruption cases in 27 of the 28 jurisdictions which have endorsed the Anti-Corruption Action Plan for ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Denying Safe Haven to the Corrupt and the Proceeds of Corruption written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the legal and practical challenges of mutual legal assistance and extradition, as well as solutions for improvement, discussed during a March 2006 training seminar in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Experts from 26 Asia-Pacific countries ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Curbing Corruption in Public Procurement in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corruption in public procurement has become a major issue in the Asia-Pacific region as elsewhere in the world. As a result of corruption, private mansions are being built instead of bridges; swimming pools are dug instead of irrigation systems ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Knowledge Commitment Action against Corruption in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under which it proliferates. They know first hand that corruption jeopardizes security and economic growth, perpetuates poverty, and exacerbates social inequities. The knowledge has prompted the governments of more than half the world's population ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Anti Corruption Policies in Asia and the Pacific Legal and Institutional Reform in 25 Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, societies have come to realize the extent to which corruption and bribery have undermined their welfare and stability. Governments, the private sector, and civil society alike have consequently declared the fight against ...
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Fighting Bribery in Public Procurement in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings compiles the experience that experts from Asian and Pacific countries – as well as beyond the region – shared during a seminar on Fighting Bribery in Public Procurement in Asia and the Pacific held in Bali in November 2007.
Download or read book Coastal and Marine Hazards Risks and Disasters written by Jean Ellis and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, and recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of historically relevant hazards and disasters as well as the many recent catastrophes. - Contains contributions from experts in the field selected by a world-renowned editorial board - Cutting-edge discussion of natural hazard topics that affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of humans worldwide - Numerous full-color tables, GIS maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes in action will be included
Download or read book Managing Conflict of Interest written by ADB-OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific. Master Training Seminar and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Disaster Theory written by David Etkin and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2014-12-26 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster Theory: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Concepts and Causes offers the theoretical background needed to understand what disasters are and why they occur. Drawing on related disciplines, including sociology, risk theory, and seminal research on disasters and emergency management, Disaster Theory clearly lays out the conceptual framework of the emerging field of disaster studies. Tailored to the needs of advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this unique text also provides an ideal capstone for students who have already been introduced to the fundamentals of emergency management. Disaster Theory emphasizes the application of critical thinking in understanding disasters and their causes by synthesizing a wide range of information on theory and practice, including input from leading scholars in the field. - Offers the first cohesive depiction of disaster theory - Incorporates material from leading thinkers in the field, as well as student exercises and critical thinking questions, making this a rich resource for advanced courses - Written from an international perspective and includes case studies of disasters and hazards from around the world for comparing the leading models of emergency response - Challenges the reader to think critically about important questions in disaster management from various points of view
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific The Criminalisation of Bribery in Asia and the Pacific written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reviews Asian countries' implementation of United Nations Convention Against Corruption Articles 15, 16 and 26 (domestic and foreign bribery by natural and legal persons).
Download or read book The Asian Tsunami written by S. K. Jayasuriya and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2004 Asian tsunami was the greatest natural disaster in recent times. Almost 230,000 people died. In response, governments in Asia and the broader international community announced large aid programs. The resulting assistance effort was one of the largest humanitarian programs ever organised in the developing world. This book discusses the lessons of the aid effort for disaster protection policy in developing countries.
Download or read book ADB OECD Anti Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific Strategies for Business Government and Civil Society to Fight Corruption in Asia and the Pacific written by Asian Development Bank and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceedings explores (i) incentives for anti-corruption reform; (ii) the role of criminal law standards and corporate compliance mechanisms; (iii) private-to-private corruption; (iv) preventing and managing conflicts of interest and (v)involving development partners.
Download or read book Global Corruption Report Climate Change written by Transparency International and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global response to climate change will demand unprecedented international cooperation, deep economic transformation and resource transfers at a significant scale. Corruption threatens to jeopardise these efforts. Transparency International's Global Corruption Report: Climate Change is the first publication to comprehensively explore such corruption risks. More than fifty leading experts and practitioners contribute, covering four key areas: governance: investigating major governance challenges towards tackling climate change mitigating climate change: reducing greenhouse gas emissions with transparency and accountability adapting to climate change: identifying corruption risks in climate-proofing development, financing and implementation of adaptation forestry governance: responding to the corruption challenges plaguing the forestry sector, and how these challenges need to be integrated into current international strategies to halt deforestation and promote reforestation. The Global Corruption Report: Climate Change provides essential policy analysis to help policy-makers, practitioners and other stakeholders understand these risks and develop effective responses at a critical point in time when the main architecture for climate governance is being developed.
