Getting the Full Picture on Public Officials : : A How-to Guide for Effective Financial Disclosure / / Ivana Maria Rossi

• Autore: Rossi Ivana Maria
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2017
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (146 pages)
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetto topico: Anticorruption; Asset Declaration; Conflict Of Interest; Corruption; Governance; Illicit Enrchment; Integrity; Public Officials; Star Initiative; Transparency
• Soggetto genere / forma: Handbooks and manuals.
• Persona (resp. second.): PopLaura; BergerTammar
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1. Why Do Countries Embark on Financial Disclosure? -- Global and Regional Trends Observed in the Adoption of Disclosure Systems -- What Are the Objectives of a Disclosure System? -- Illicit Wealth Focus -- Conflict of Interest Focus -- Legal Foundations of Disclosure Systems -- Domestic Legal Foundations -- International Conventions and Other Instruments -- Expectations: The Nonlegal Key to Successful Objectives -- Notes -- References -- 2. Who Should File a Disclosure? How Often? -- Who Should File a Disclosure? -- Targeted Categories of Officials -- Put a Name to It: Creating and Updating a List of Filers -- Size Matters -- Family Members -- How Often Should Filers Declare? -- Notes -- References -- 3. What to Declare? -- What Makes a Disclosure Form Strong or Weak? -- What Categories of Information Are Included in Financial Disclosure Forms? -- Personal Identification Information -- Declaring Immovable and Movable Assets -- Declaring Income -- Declaring Securities -- Declaring Business Relationships with Financial Institutions (Bank Accounts) -- Declaring Liabilities -- Declaring Cash -- Declaring Interests -- Declaring Gifts -- Beneficial Ownership -- Notes -- References -- 4. The Submission Process -- Key Elements of the Submission Process -- The Register of Filers -- Communication with the Filer -- Completing and Submitting the Form -- Ensuring Compliance and Quality Control -- Data Collection and Management -- Analysis and Reporting -- Electronic versus Paper-Based Submission -- Challenges in Transitioning to Electronic-Based Submission -- Notes -- Reference -- 5. Verification of Information -- Objectives of Verification -- Verification Methodology. ; Determining Which Disclosures to Verify -- The Verification Process -- What Happens When Irregularities Are Found? -- Public Access and Verification -- Interagency Cooperation for Effective Verification -- Mapping Sources of Information for Verification (Domestically and Abroad) -- Prioritizing Sources of Information -- Ensuring Effective Interagency Cooperation -- Using Electronic Tools in the Verification Process -- Notes -- References -- 6. Why and How to Provide Access to Information in Disclosures -- Public Availability of Information -- Approaches to Public Availability -- What Information Is Made Available? -- Information Contained in Public Officials' Declarations -- Sharing Information about the Disclosure System -- Sharing Information with Other Agencies and Institutions -- Sharing Information with Other Government Agencies -- Sharing Information with Foreign and Private Sector Institutions -- Notes -- References -- 7. How Are Disclosures Used for Enforcement? -- Section 1: Enforcement of the Disclosure System -- Connecting the Dots -- Who Is Sanctioned? -- Cooperation and Coordination -- Challenges in Imposing Sanctions -- Section 2: Disclosures as Part of a Bigger Puzzle: How Can Disclosure Support the Broader Fight against Corruption and Asset Recovery? -- Illicit Enrichment -- Asset Recovery -- Notes -- Appendix A. Sample 1 and Sample 2 Data -- Sample 1: Legislation -- Sample 2: Practices of Disclosure Agencies -- Notes -- Reference -- Boxes -- I.1 Who Are We? -- I.2 A Little Bit More on Our Data -- 3.1 Keeping the Truth (and Luxury New York Apartments) Hidden, while Not Lying -- 5.1 Verifying Abroad: International Cooperation and Open Sources -- Figures -- 1.1 Adoption of Financial Disclosure Laws Spiked in the Last Three Decades -- 1.2 Financial Disclosure Laws Are More Widespread in Some Regions. ; 1.3 Systems Combine Elements of Both Illicit Wealth and Conflicts of Interest Objectives -- 1.4 International Anticorruption Instruments and Adoption of Financial Disclosure Laws -- 2.1 Share of Public Officials Required to Disclose, by Category -- 2.2 Filing Population Size -- 2.3 Size of Disclosure Population -- 2.4 Share of Jurisdictions Requiring Disclosure of Family Members -- 2.5 Frequency of Disclosure Requirements -- 3.1 Disclosure Form Example, Income -- 3.2 Disclosure Form Example, Unclear Request of Value of Assets -- 3.3 Finding the Right Balance in the Disclosure Form -- 3.4 Depth and Breadth of Requirements on Declaring Securities (OECD High-Income Jurisdictions) -- 3.5 Share of Jurisdictions Requiring Each Type of Information in Filer's Disclosure Form -- 3.6 Value of the Asset -- 3.7 Asset Acquisition -- 3.8 Asset Ownership -- 4.1 The Submission Process -- 4.2 Country Example: Creating and Maintaining a List of Filers -- 4.3 Preferred Methods for Checking Compliance -- 4.4 Country Example: Communication with Filers -- 4.5 How Officials Access the Disclosure Form -- 4.6 Methods for Submitting Disclosure Forms -- 4.7 Methods for Filling Out Disclosure Forms -- 4.8 The Path to Compliance -- 4.9 Achieving an Optimal Submission Process -- 4.10 Manual Management and Transfer of Data Still Widespread, but Automatic Transfer Gaining Ground -- 5.1 Verification of the Content of Financial Disclosures (by Law) Is Particularly Widespread in Latin American and the Caribbean and in Europe and Central Asia -- 5.2 Selecting All Disclosures for Verification Is the Least Common Approach -- 5.3 Globally, Routine Checks Are More Common by Law than Irregular Checks -- 5.4 Practitioners Use a Variety of Methods to Carry Out Verification -- 5.5 In Many Systems, Verification is Complemented by Public Access. ; 5.6 Still Room for Growth in Implementing Verification and Public Access -- 5.7 Sources of Information for Verification -- 5.8 Prioritization Variables -- 6.1 Weighing the Arguments of Public Availability -- 6.2 Declared Information Is Publicly Available by Law, by Region -- 6.3 Declared Information Is Publicly Available by Law, by Income Category of Country -- 6.4 Approaches for Public Access -- 6.5 Methods for Public Access to Disclosure Information -- 6.6 Conditions for Sharing Declared Information with Other Government Institutions -- 6.7 Methods for Sharing Disclosure Information with Banking Institutions in Relation to PEPs' Due Diligence Procedures -- 6.8 Sharing Disclosure Information with Foreign Public Institutions -- 7.1 Sample of Sanctions Applied to Public Officials -- 7.2 Sample Sanctions for Noncompliance -- 7.3 Components of Effective Sanctions -- Tables -- 3.1 Categories of Information Typically Found in Disclosure Forms -- A.1 Sample 1 Countries, by Region -- A.2 Sample 1 Countries, by Income Category -- A.3 Sample 2 Countries, by Region -- A.4 Sample 2 Countries, by Income Category.
• Sommario/riassunto: Financial disclosure systems are a vital component of transparency. By now 161 countries around the world have introduced financial disclosure systems, becoming commonplace around the world. But, although the rules are on the books, many practitioners are still struggling with the intricacies of the rules and how to implement them in the socioeconomic, historical, and legal context of their own country. Little guidance is available to assist them. This book aims to fill that void and provide practitioners with practical scenarios to consider before deciding on a particular course of action. This book contains short chapters that elaborate each topic and provide clear guidance on the issues that policy makers and those involved in the implementation of financial disclosure obligations will need to take into account before making a decision. How do you decide who should file? And how often? On-line or in hard copy? And what exactly? Everything they own directly-or also those apartments they own indirectly? How should information in declarations be checked? Should it be shared with public? How accessible should it be? This is the sort of practical guidance that this book aims to provide.
• Titolo autorizzato: Getting the Full Picture on Public Officials
• ISBN: 9781464809576; 1464809577
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910975336603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World Bank e-Library.