Focus on the need to foster Education on Integrity.
WHY EDUCATION ON INTEGRITY MATTERS There is strong evidence of the extent to which corruption leads to unfair market conditions, hampers competitiveness and is ultimately detrimental to economic growth. In the Adriatic region, businesses continue to identify high levels of corruption and lack of transparency as a key constraint to the economies’ growth and competitiveness. The OECD CompetitivenessOutlook for South East Europe 2018 found a number of policy shortcomings that need to be meaningfully addressed in practice, including a need to foster education on integrity . Progress and challenges for Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, North Macedonia (FYROM), Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia. Despite the fact that a growing number of OECD member and non-member countries are educating for public integrity there is evidence that the topics do not or insufficiently form part of the academic curricula, which results in limited knowledge and discussion about them among profe...