A new book was issued by Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies entitled: “Strategic Overview of Anti-corruption” by Firas Tariq Makiya.
The book includes a vision of the most critical corruption indicators, its causes in Iraq, and the essential global experiences to combat it. The author proposes an integrated strategy to fight corruption in Iraq through political will, constitutional engineering of anti-corruption agencies, accountability and confronting political corruption, addressing corruption in government contracts, working on administrative and financial reform, and working on transparency and community awareness.
All successful experiences in combating corruption in the world indicate that corruption is not a culture, nor is it the destiny of nations, but rather an environment that can be controlled and reduced by simplifying procedures and establishing the necessary monitoring institutions.
This requires quick solutions supported by a governmental political decision and within short and medium-term programs that include decisive anti-corruption legislation and strict confrontation of the corrupt and ending the bureaucracy through the implementation of e-government.
