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Building Competitive Advantage in Nations:
Increasing Transparency, Combating Corruption and Improving Corporate Governance

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Background Papers on Combating Corruption

Anti-Corruption Initiatives from a Business View Point
John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, CIPE Speech given at Sixth Annual Harvard International Development Conference

Anti-Corruption Papers
IRIS Center, University of Maryland, Department of Economics

An Overview of Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Ron Sprout
Office of Program Coordination and Strategy
Bureau for Europe & Eurasia
U.S. Agency for International Development
March 2002

Corruption: The Enemy of Progress
An issues paper presented at the Partners in Transition Europe and Eurasia Regional Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 9-11, 2001
IRIS Center, University of Maryland

Coalition 2000: A Model Example of Public-Private Partnership to Combat Corruption
Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria

The Private Sector and Fighting Corruption in CEE/FSU
Miklos Marschall, Executive Director, Transparency International

Fighting Corruption: The Role of Diplomacy and International Agreements
John Brandolino
Director, Anticorruption and Governance Initiatives
Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs,
U.S. Department of State

Anti-Corruption Efforts and Serbia's Private Sector
Boris Begovic is Vice President of the Center for Liberal Democratic Studies (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

Combating Corruption
Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Manager, Governance Finance and Regulation, World Bank Institute

Anti-Corruption Papers
David Meyer, Sr. Anti-Corruption Advisor, EE/MT/ILE

Fighting Corruption in Slovakia
Ivan Miklos, Deputy Prime Minister, Slovak Republic

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COOPERATION: THE BULGARIAN EXPERIENCE
Boyko Todorov, Coordinator, Southeast European Legal Development Initiative (SELDI) and Program Director, Center for the Study of Democracy

Background Papers on Corporate Governance

Corporate Governance: An Introduction

Corporate Governance Initiative for the Transition Economies

Corporate Governance
Presentation by John Sullivan, CIPE Workshop at the 10th International Anti-Corruption Conference, Prague, Czech Republic

Corporate Governance: An Antidote to Corruption

Regional Initiative in Romania on Business Ethics in Cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce

Corporate Governance Code in Russia
Roundtable Breakast Discussion with Gennady Kolesnikov
Thursday, October 18, 2001
U.S. Chamber of Commerce

2002 Guide to the Sunshine Amendment and Code of Ethics for Public Officers and Employees
State Florida Commission on Ethics

Developing Effective Corporate Governance Practices: A Brief Overview of Policy Initiatives (PDF)
Demir Yener, Sr. Financial Markets Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition/Institutional and Legal Environmental Division, USAID

Visit CIPE's Strengthening Corporate Governance Web page for more papers and speeches regarding corporate governance.

Corporate Governance Assessment of Companies
Ian Byrne, Director, Business Development, Governance and Advisory Services, Standard &; Poor's

Operational Strategies for Improved Corporate Governance
Experiences, Lessons Learned at Enterprise Funds in Ukraine and Moldova
Natalie A. Jaresko, President and CEO, Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Kiev, Ukraine

Good Corporate Governance, Competitiveness and Economic Development
Mats Isaksson, Economist and Head of the Corporate Affairs Division, OECD

Corporate Governance in Romania
Despina Pascal, Romanian National Corporate Governance Task Force

Background Papers on Competitiveness

History of Competitiveness Initiatives (PDF Document)

Case Study: Croatia Competitiveness Initiative (CCI)
by Croatia Competitive Council

The Bulgarian Competitiveness Initiative
by Bulgarian Competitiveness Exercise

Russian Federation: Competitiveness Benchmarking: 2001
Ukraine: Competitiveness Benchmarking: 2001
Kazakhstan: Competitiveness Benchmarking: 2001
Competitiveness Initiatives
by Kevin Murphy and Alexandra Pugachevsky, J.E. Austin Associates

Competitiveness Bibliography
by J.E. Austin Associates

Murphy's Law on Competitiveness

Strategy Tools
David Flood, Consultant, J.E. Austin and Associates (Power Point)

Building Competitive Advantage
William Frej, Director, Office of Market Transition, USAID

Building Competitiveness
Kenneth A. Lanza, Deputy Director, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

The Celtic Tiger
Garret FitzGerald, Former Prime Minister of Ireland

What is to Be Learned Through Experience: Ukraine Case Study on Cluster Development
Wolfgang Price, Honorary President, Podilya Pershyi NGO, and former Consultant, Ukrainian State and Regional Department of Economy

A Model for Enhancing National Competitiveness: Lessons From the US
Howard Rosen, Former Executive Director, Competitiveness Policy Council

Economic Revival in Ukraine
Stanislav Sokolenko, UKRIMPEX

Speakers on Corporate Governance/Anti-Corruption

Speakers' Biographies

Boris Begovic is Vice President of the Center for Liberal Democratic Studies (Belgrade, Yugoslavia), an independent think tank based on the cooperation of numerous leading experts in social sciences in Serbia (economics, political science, law, social philosophy). In addition to his leadership at CLDS, Dr. Begovic is also the former Chief Economic Advisor to Miroljub Labus, Deputy Prime Minister, Federal Government of Yugoslavia.

Igor Belikov, Director, Institute for Stock Market and Management and President, Russian Institute of Directors

John M. Brandolino, Director, Anticorruption and Governance Initiatives, United States Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL)

Ian Byrne, Director, Business Development, Governance and Advisory Services, Standard & Poor’s

Claudia J. Dumas, J.D., Senior Rule of Law Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/ Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

Jose Maria Figueres, Managing Director, World Economic Forum and former President of Costa Rica

Garret FitzGerald, Former Prime Minister of Ireland

David B. Flood, Consultant, J.E. Austin Associates, Inc.

William Frej, Director, Office of Market Transition, USAID

Paula O. Goddard, former USAID Mission Director, Slovakia

Jerry Hyman, Director, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Democracy and Governance, USAID

Mats Isaksson, Economist and Head of the Corporate Affairs Division, OECD

Natalie A. Jaresko, President and CEO, Western NIS Enterprise Fund, Kiev, Ukraine

Sarah Elizabeth Jones, Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Democracy and Government, USAID

Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Manager, Governance Finance and Regulation, World Bank Institute

Scott Kleinberg, Private Enterprise Officer, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

Kenneth A. Lanza, Deputy Director, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition, USAID

Kasymbek Mambetov, Chief Secretary of the Special Representative of the President on Promoting Foreign Investment, Kyrgyz Republic

Miklos Marschall, Executive Director, Transparency International

Geoffrey Mazullo, Director, Partners for Financial Stability (PFS) Program -- A cooperative agreement between East-West Management Institute, Inc. (EWMI) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) www.ewmi.hu

Ivan Miklos, Deputy Prime Minister, Slovakia

A. David Meyer, J.D., M.B.A., Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor, Office of Market Transition, USAID Bureau for Europe & Eurasia

Kevin Murphy, President, J.E. Austin Associates, Inc.

Madalene O'Donnell, Anti-Corruption Specialist, Democracy and Governance Office, DCHA Bureau, USAID

Despina Pascal, Romanian National Corporate Governance Task Force

Wolfgang Price, Honorary President, Podilya Pershyi NGO, and former Consultant, Ukrainian State and Regional Department of Economy

Howard Rosen, Former Executive Director, Competitiveness Policy Council

Stanislav Sokolenko, President and CEO, UKRIMPEX Joint-Stock Company

John D. Sullivan, Executive Director, Center for International Private Enterprise

Boyko Todorov, Coordinator, Southeast European Legal Development Initiative (SELDI) and Program Director, Center for the Study of Democracy

Andrei Tsyganov, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy and Business Development, Russian Federation

Andrew Wilson, Senior Program Officer, Eastern Europe and Eurasia, Center for International Private Enterprise

Demir Yener, Sr. Financial Markets Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau/Office of Market Transition/Institutional and Legal Environmental Division, USAID

 
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