Prevention first of all

Apart from sanctions, more attention to prevention. This is the indication which emerged, on October 10, from the session dedicated to the fight against corruption at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and IMF in Washington. The session, which saw as speaker Leonardo Borlini, assistant professor of the Department of Legal Studies at Bocconi and responsible for the University for the Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative, together with Gianluca Esposito, Senior Counsel of the IMF. Borlini and Esposito discussed recent economic analyses on the theme of corruption and international regulation together with Pascale Helene Dubois. Chief Suspension and Debarment Officer at the World Bank and a public formed by counsels of the World bank and IMF and society at large.

The focal point is that "the side of prevention, relative to the fight against corruption, is still lacking," explains Borlini underlining how, even in OECD countries, the low investment in prevention is manifest in those countries that invest low in education.