The New Rules
for Global Finance Coalition invite you
to a brown
bag lunch presentation and discussion of
Corruption
with Raymond
Baker and Ariel Buira
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Institute for Policy
Studies
1112 16th
Street, NW, Suite 600,
Washington,
DC 20036
Raymond Baker's
Presentation
Background Paper Recommended by Ariel Buira:
Governance and Anti-Corruption
Reforms in Developing Countries: Policies, Evidence and Ways Forward by
Mushtaq Husain Khan
World Bank
President Paul Wolfowitz has made
corruption his signature issue. The assumption is that everyone
shares the same common definition of corruption, and knows who to blame. In
the World Bank context, the “bad guys” are developing country government
officials on the take. Is this the major source of corruption? Who are the
responsible parties? What are the remedies? If the World Bank were to
develop criteria for determining the degree of corruption, what would it
look like?
Raymond
Baker will be the lead presenter, describing three major sources of
corruption, and the institutions designed to facilitate the transfer of
massive amounts of “dirty money.” The perpetrators of the corruption rarely
include developing country officials, and the designers of the sophisticated
infrastructure that moves the cash may surprise you.
Ariel Buira,
the lead respondent, has long been an official of a developing country
government, Mexico. His perspective on corruption does not precisely
coincide with that of Mr. Wolfowitz. Indeed, is Mr. Wolfowitz and his
institution free of corruption? Well positioned to tackle this issue?
Please join
us for what is a timely and candid discussion of an issue that has been
placed at the center of the development agenda.
Raymond
Baker is the Author of Capitalism’s
Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System.
After a long career in international business,
Raymond is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a
senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, both in Washington DC.
He appears often on television and radio in the United States and overseas
and testifies before House and Senate committees. Baker has an MBA from
Harvard, lived in Africa for many years, and has done business across much
of the developing world.
Ariel Buira
is currently Director, G-24 Secretariat in Washington DC. He has a B.A. in
Economics, Manchester University, a Diploma on Economic Integration,
University of Paris, a Diploma for Advanced Studies in Economic Development,
Manchester University, and an M.A. Economics, Manchester University. He
served as Special Envoy of the President of Mexico for the U.N. Conference
on Financing for Development from October 2001 to March 2002. He has been
Senior Member, St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford and served
as Ambassador of Mexico to Greece from 1998-2001. He served as a Member of
the Board of Governors of the Bank of Mexico from 1994-1996 and was Chairman
of the Board of Directors of BLADEX (Latin American Export Bank) from
1985-1994. He was Director for International Organizations and Agreements,
Bank of Mexico, 1985-1993 and Executive Director of the International
Monetary Fund 1980-1982, and Alternate Executive Director from 1978-1980.
