Mutual Evaluation: An Approach to Achieving Fairness and Progress in Implementing International Agreements

The globalization of commerce, trade, and financial services places significant pressure on international efforts to address complex issues. The challenge is not simply adopting the best policies but ensuring that all nations in executing these agreements carry them out to an equal degree thus not creating competitive disadvantages among the signatories. In such areas as the environment, financial crimes, money laundering and public corruption, attention is being given not only to what the international accepted standards should be, but how to ensure that they are implemented consistently and fairly by each of the nations... [more]