Or The Department of State’s Bureau of International of the importance of fighting corruption and urge stronger Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) manages enforcement of anti-corruption laws and policies. US. participation in many multilateral anti-corruption political and legal initiatives at the global and regional level. OECD Working Group on Bribery and the Anti- INL also funds and coordinates significant efforts to assist Bribery Convention countries with combating corruption through legal reform, The OECD was founded in 1961 to stimulate eco- training, and other capacity-building efforts. Inquiries about nomic progress and world trade. As noted, the Anti-Bribery the US. government’s general anti-corruption efforts and Convention requires its parties to criminalize the bribery implementation of global and regional anti-corruption ini- of foreign public officials in international business transac- tiatives may be directed to INL on its website, http://www. tions.*! As of November 1, 2012, there were 39 parties to state.gov/j/inl/c/crime/corr/index.htm, or by email to: the Anti-Bribery Convention: 34 OECD member coun- [email protected]. In addition, the US. Agency for tries (including the United States) and five non-OECD International Development (USAID) has developed several member countries (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Russian anti-corruption programs and publications, information Federation, and South Africa). All of these parties are about which can be found at hetp://www.usaid.gov/what- also members of the OECD Working Group on Bribery we-do/democracy-human-rights-and-governance/promot- (Working Group).” ing-accountability-transparency. Finally, the Department of The Working Group is responsible for monitoring the State’s brochure “Fighting Global Corruption: Business Risk implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention, the 2009 Management,” available at htep://www.oge.doc.gov/pdfs/ Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Fig