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外文翻译 原文 Anti-corruption Policies and Programs Material Source: /upload/content/300/anti-corruption%20policies%20and%20programs.pdf Author:Jeff Huther Anwar Shah The Executive Board of the World Bank approved its anti-corruption strategy in September 1997. The strategy defined corruption as the use of public office for private gain and called for the Bank to address corruption along four dimensions: ⑴Preventing fraud and corruption in Bank projects ⑵Helping countries that request Bank assistance for corruption ⑶Mainstreaming a concern for corruption in Banks work ⑷Lending active support to international efforts to address corruption Following the adoption of this strategy, concrete steps to prevent fraud and corruption in Bank projects have included: the introduction of a confidential hotline, tightening of procurement guidelines, intensive audits of projects, and support for improving procurement systems in client countries. Mainstreaming a concern for corruption has taken place through the Banks economic and sector work which provides the analytic basis for country assistance strategy documents which, in turn, underlie the Banks lending programs. Of the analytical tools used in economic and sector work, institutional reviews, country financial accountability assessments and public expenditure reviews offer substantial scope for addressing the governance failures that permit wide spread corruption, country procurement assessment reports identify sources of corruption in procurement and recommend remedies, country economic memoranda can be used for relatively quick assessments of corruption sources, and country assistance evaluations may highlight areas where corruption concerns are undermining Bank work. In addition to economic and sector work, all country assistance strategy documents are now required to diagnose the state of governance and the risks that corruption poses to Bank projects. The Comprehensive Development Framework unveiled in 1999 underscores the im