Guest post: G20, business and corruption – time for action | beyondbrics

Guest post: G20, business and corruption – time for action | beyondbrics:

"By Andrei Bougrov and Brook Horowitz of the B20 Task Force on Transparency and Anti-Corruption

When the Russian government took over the G20 presidency at the beginning of 2013, the B20 – a group of business leaders from the major companies of G20 countries – was invited to set up a Task Force to engage in a dialogue with the G20 on corruption. After six months of intensive work, the companies in the B20 Task Force came up with a number of recommendations which have been presented to the G20 leaders in advance of the St Petersburg summit.

The recommendations that have emerged look more like an action plan than recommendations. The discussions were dominated by a conviction that in fact something can and must be done about corruption, that business has a critical leadership role to play, and that the B20, with its convening of the developed and the emerging economies, is an appropriate forum to jump-start this process. During our deliberations, we quickly shifted from talk-shop mode to implementation mode, setting ourselves an ambitious goal to move “from declaration to action”."

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