The FCPA Blog | By: Andy Spalding | July 21, 2017:
Bhutan – the tiny Himalayan kingdom nestled between China and India – now writes an anti-corruption story unlike any I have seen, and in the best of ways.
Deliberately isolated from the outside world and its geopolitical machinations, Bhutan has declined to establish diplomatic relations with the United States, China, and Russia alike. Rather, it freely and selectively adapts global best practices to its absolutely unique cultural context: a truly Buddhist country that coined the phrase, “gross national happiness” and takes the concept quite seriously.
If you ever have the chance to go, as I did last week, you’ll see what I mean.
They now believe that anti-corruption measures can advance their happiness. Its new constitution created an anti-corruption commission, and the country’s only law school, which opened for classes just this month, has a mandatory anti-corruption course. But they are forging their own path, and in so doing tacitly take exception to core features of the global anti-corruption movement.
I can think of three assumptions that Bhutan proudly challenges…
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