Best Practices Certification: A New Tool to Fight Corruption

‘It is a terrible thing,’ says the heroine of a Jhabvala novel, ‘bribery and corruption … but what can a few honest people do when it is so deeply rooted in political life?’ This is a question that has plagued good citizens everywhere, but especially so in the developing and the economic transition countries. Until recently, it was a question that few would dare to utter in public places.