Proceedings of the 5th Regional Seminar on making international anti-corruption standards operational ADB/OEDC Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific

SECTION 1: Conflict of Interest—Historical Origins, Working. Definitions, and Conceptual Frameworks. Chapter 1: Defining conflict of interest: General, legal, and institutional frameworks and good international practices. The United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC): A fundamental tool to prevent confl ict of interest. Conflict of interest: A historical and comparative perspective. Regulating conflict of interest: International experience with asset declaration and disclosure. Chapter 2: Learning from case studies: Establishing frameworks for conflict of interest in selected countries and jurisdictions. Dealing with conflict-of-interest issues in government and politics: The Canadian experience. Managing confl icts of interest in the Republic of Korea: Policies and instruments. Asset declaration in the Philippines. Conflict of interest in Indonesia: From a legalistic approachto effective institutional change. SECTION 2: Implementation and Enforcement—Legal and Regulatory Tools. Chapter 3: Managing confl ict of interest: Implementation and enforcement tools—laws, procedures, and instruments. Confl ict of interest: The challenge to develop tools for implementation and enforcement. Private gain from public loss: How Thailand copes with corruption from confl ict of interest. Managing confl ict of interest in the public sector: The Hong Kong, China experience. Conflict-of-interest enforcement in the United States. Tracking corruption in the USA: Politics and election financing. SECTION 3: Prevention and Enforcement—Codes of Conduct, Ethics, and Organizational Culture. Chapter 4: Codes of conduct in the public sector. Codes of conduct and mechanisms to prevent conflicts of interest in the People’s Republic of China. Preventing confl icts of interest in the Australianpublic service. Chapter 5: Codes of conduct in the private sector. Good corporate governance: Essential to prevent conflicts of interest and fraud—Learning from Pakistan’s experience. Compliance enforcement in a multinational business context: The Bayer business model. Living business ethics: Good governance equals good business.