Defence companies and anti-corruption index 2012 / [electronic resource] [Study authors: Mark Pyman ...]

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The first of its kind, this Index provides an analysis of what the 129 biggest defence companies around the world do and don’t do to prevent corruption. The study grades companies from A to F depending on the level of public evidence of their anti-corruption systems and processes. In addition, we invited all companies to provide internal information on their anti-corruption systems beyond what is public. 34 companies did so, and we present these results separately. The Index includes companies from all of the ten largest arms exporting nations like USA, Russia, Germany, France, the UK and China—who between them are responsible for over 90 per cent of the arms sales around the world. Transparency International estimates the global cost of corruption in the defence sector to be a minimum of USD 20 billion per year, based on data from the World Bank and SIPRI. Overall, the defence companies included in this index are worth more than USD10 trillion, with a combined defence revenue of over USD 500 billion.

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