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Making development assistance work at home: DFID's approach to clamping down on international bribery and money laundering in the UK

Corruption will remain a profitable crime in developing countries as long as counterparts in rich countries are willing to hide stolen resources. Working to improve governance in poor countries will only address part of the issues. To disrupt the mechanisms that enable illicit outflows, the UK Department for International Development is funding the City of London Police, the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service to increase investigations on money laundered by senior political figures in the UK. In 4 years, millions of pounds have been frozen and repatriated – indicating a shift in thinking in what counts as development work in a world with global patterns of corruption.

1 May 2011
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Making development assistance work at home: DFID's approach to clamping down on international bribery and money laundering in the UK

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Fontana, A. (2011) Making development assistance work at home: DFID's approach to clamping down on international bribery and money laundering in the UK. Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute (U4 Practice Insight no. 2011:5) 12 p.

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Alessandra Fontana

Alessandra Fontana is an independent researcher and consultant. She has provided support to developing countries in the implementation of policies and conducted applied research and policy analysis. She worked for the OECD focusing on efforts undertaken by the international community in illicit financial flows and managed projects in corruption prevention in the Middle East and North Africa. She was an adviser for U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, focused on illicit financial flows and political party financing. Prior to that, she managed a large research project for Transparency International on political party financing across Latin America. In 2002, she received a Thomson Reuters Foundation scholarship for her work as a financial journalist in Brazil.

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