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Global Corruption Report 2004

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covering worldwide corruption from July 2002 to June 2003
special focus:
POLITICAL CORRUPTION

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Table of contents


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Indice.pdf 62.12 kB

Acknowledgments


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Executive Summary
Jimmy Carter, Access to information and political finance reform: promising policy areas for building transparency
Mary Robinson, Corruption and human rights


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PART ONE: POLITICAL CORRUPTION

Introduction to Political Corruption
Robin Hodess, Introduction
Transparency International, Where did the money go?
Transparency International, Standards on Political Finance and Favours
Robin Hodess, Introduction
Transparency International, Where did the money go?
Transparency International, Standards on Political Finance and Favours
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Political Finance
Marcin Walecki, Political money and corruption
Judith February and Hennie van Vuuren, The challenge of achieving political equality in South Africa
Michael Johnston, Soft money ‘reform’ in the United States: has anything changed?
Transparency International, A selection of the year’s legislation on political party governance, funding and disclosure
World Economic Forum, Political corruption: a global comparison
Bruno Wilhelm Speck, Campaign finance reform: is Latin America on the road to transparency?
Musikari Kombo, Parliamentarians join the fight against corruption
Anna Hazare: TI Integrity Awards winner 2003


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Disclosure and Enforcement
Gene Ward, The role of disclosure in combatting corruption in political finance
Marcin Walecki, Ukraine: the authoritarian abuse of disclosure
Kevin Casas-Zamora, Media discounts for politicians: examples from Latin America
Transparency International: NGO monitoring efforts: Latvia, Ecuador and India
Yves-Marie Doublet, Enforcement: how regulation of political party finance is managed in practice
Alonso Lujambio, Enforcement: the experience of Mexico
António Siba-Siba Macuácua: posthumous TI Integrity Awards winner 2003


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Corporate Money
Joe Roeber, The politics of corruption in the arms trade: South Africa’s arms scandal and the Elf affair
Juanita Olaya, Political corruption and the politics of procurement
Nicholas Shaxson, The Elf trial: political corruption and the oil industry
Duff Conacher, Canada’s rules on lobbying: key loopholes remain
Larry Noble and Steven Weiss, Following the Enron money trail
Dora Akunyilli, TI Integrity Awards winner 2003


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Vote Buying
Silke Pfeiffer, Vote buying and its implications for democracy: evidence from Latin America
Claudio Weber Abramo, Vote buying in Brazil: less of a problem than believed?
Frederic Charles Schaffer, Vote buying in East Asia
Leslie Busby, Vote buying at the International Whaling Commission


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Legal Hurdles
Véronique Pujas, Immunity and extradition: obstacles to justice
Transparency International, Recent developments on immunity
Sua Rimoni Ah Chong: TI Integrity Awards winner 2003
José Ugaz, Campaigning for Fujimori’s extradition
Gherardo Colombo, New immunity law breaks with Italy’s constitutional history
Donatella della Porta, Controlling the media in Italy
Abdelhaï Beliardouh: posthumous TI Integrity Awards winner 2003
Tim Daniel, Repatriation of looted state assets: selected case studies and the UN Convention against Corruption
Jeremy Carver, The hunt for looted state assets: the case of Benazir Bhutto


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PART TWO: GLOBAL, REGIONAL AND COUNTRY REPORTS

Global and Regional Reports
Peter Rooke, The UN Convention against Corruption
Jermyn Brooks, The UN Global Compact: an opportunity for tackling corruption
Akere Muna, The African Union Convention against Corruption
Quentin Reed, Corruption and the EU accession process: who is better prepared?
Fritz Heimann, Will the OECD Convention stop foreign bribery?
Steve Radelet, Governance, corruption and the Millennium Challenge Account


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Country reports A - K

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Algeria: Djilali Hadjadj
Argentina: Laura Alonso
Armenia: Arevik Saribekyan
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Australia: Peter Rooke with TI Australia
Azerbaijan: Rena Safaralieva and Ilgar Mammadov´
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Brazil: Ana Luiza Fleck Saibro
Bulgaria: Katia Hristova and Diana Kovatcheva
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Burundi: Nestor Bikorimana
Chile: Andrea Fernández
China: Guo Yong and Liao Ran
Costa Rica: Roxana Salazar and Mario Carazo
Egypt: Mona El-Ghobashy
France: Yves-Marie Doublet
Greece: Vassilios Ntouvelis
Guatemala: Violeta María Mazariegos Zetina
Japan: TI Japan
Kazakhstan: Andrey Chebotarev, Nurgul Kuspanova and Sergey Zlotnikov
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Kyrgyz Republic: Aigul Akmatjanova
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Lebanon: Charles Adwan and Mina Zapatero
Mali: Brahima Fomba
Nepal: Rama Krishna Regmee
Nicaragua: Roberto Courtney
Nigeria: Bolaji Abdullahi
Palestinian Authority: Hada El-Aryan
Peru: Samuel Rotta Castilla
Philippines: Gabriella Quimson
Poland: Julia Pitera with Magda Brennek, Janusz Kochanowski, Andrzej Kojder and Jacek Łęski
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Russia: Roman Kupchinsky, Elena Chirkova and Marina Savintseva
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Senegal: Mouhamadou Mboji
Serbia: Nemanja Nenadic
South Africa: Daryl Balia
Uganda: Hassan Muloopa
United States: Nancy Z. Boswell, Phyllis Dininio and Michael Johnston
Zambia: Christine Munalula

PART THREE: CORRUPTION RESEARCH

Corruption Research I
Pablo Zoido and Larry Chavis, Introduction
Pablo Zoido and Larry Chavis, Introduction
Johann Graf Lambsdorff, Corruption Perceptions Index 2003
Transparency International, Global Corruption Barometer 2003
Transparencia por Colombia, Integrity index for public institutions: measuring corruption risks in Colombia
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Corruption Research II
Elena Chirkova and Donald Bowser, Corruption in Russian regions
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Julius Court, Assessing governance in diverse and complex contexts: evidence from India
TI Bulgaria, Measuring the transparency of political party financing in Bulgaria
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Gopakumar K. Thampi, Benchmarking corruption in South Asia: insights from a household survey
Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay, Governance Matters III: new indicators for 1996-2002 and methodological challenges
Mitchell A. Seligson, The University of Pittsburgh Latin American Public Opinion Project's corruption victimisation scale
Johann Graf Lambsdorff, How corruption affects economic development
Mohsin Habib and Leon Zurawicki, Corruption and foreign direct investment


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Corruption Research III
John Bray, International business attitudes towards corruption
Anton Steen, How elites view corruption and trust in post-Soviet states
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Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson, The power of information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys
Joel Friedman, Budget transparency: assessments by civil society in Africa
Omar Azfar and William Robert Nelson Jr, Transparency, wages and the separation of powers: an experimental analysis of the causes of corruption
Ranjana Mukherjee and Omer Gokcekus, Gender and corruption in the public sector
V. Vijayalakshmi, Rent-seeking and gender in local government in India
Javier Herrera and François Roubaud, Poverty and corruption in Peru
Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud, Daily corruption in French-speaking Africa


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Index

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Back Materials


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PRESS KIT

Press release


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Highlights from the report


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Executive summary


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I ntroduction
What is political corruption?


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Errata
p. 150 Endnote 1 states that Néstor Kirchner disclosed 0.2 per cent of his campaign costs. This figure should be 20 per cent.
p. 13 Ferdinand Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986.


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