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Title: | Preventing and combating corruption: an analysis of Tanzanian laws and international conventions |
Author: | Haule, Romuald |
Year: | 2008 |
Periodical: | Journal of African and international law |
Volume: | 1 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 131-180 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | corruption legislation government policy |
Abstract: | Tanzania is keeping pace with international legal regimes in an attempt to cope with holistic best practices of corruption intervention. Over the years, it has adopted long and short-term measures to control the corruption problem. This article first discusses international and regional efforts to combat corruption, arguing that national States have to comply with these anti-corruption frameworks at the domestic level. It then analyses Tanzania's anti-corruption strategies since independence, which resulted in the new Act for Prevention and Combating of Corruption 2007. The strengths and weaknesses of the Act are outlined. The author argues that although criminal law has a role to play in the fight against corruption, it is not exhaustive. Due to the complexity of the corruption problem, there is a need for the interplay of many laws and this necessitates legal reform in general. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |