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Global Corruption Report 2008

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Opening pages

Illustrations

Contributors

Preface

Huguette Labelle

Foreword – Water in the community: why integrity matters

Wangari Maathai

Acknowledgements

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Executive summary

Transparency International

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Part one: Corruption in the water sector


1Introducing water and corruption

Water and corruption: a destructive partnership

Janelle Plummer

Corruption in water: a matter of life and death

Charles Kenny

download [page 3-17]



2 Water resources management

Corruption and water resources management: threats to quality,equitable access and environmental sustainability

Kristen Lewis and Roberto Lenton

Climate change: raising the stakes for cleaning up corruption in water governance

Transparency International

Can integrated water resources management prevent corruption?

John Butterworth

Afghanistan’s upstream powers, downstream woes

Drewery Dyke

Corruption fuels housing boom and water stress along Spain’s coast

Enriqueta Abad

Corruption without borders: the challenges of transboundary water management

Transparency International

download [page 18-39]




3 Water and sanitation

Water for the poor: corruption in water supply and sanitation

Muhammad Sohail and Sue Cavill

Corruption in urban water use by the poor

Bernard Collignon

Building water integrity: private water operators’ perspective

Jack Moss

Water corruption in industrialised countries: not so petty?

Per Ljung

The public and private faces of corruption in water

Transparency International

Pipe manufacturers in Colombia and Argentina take the anti-corruption pledge

Virginia Lencina, Lucila Polzinetti and Alma Rocío Balcázar

Clearing muddied waters: groups in India fight corruption with information

Venkatesh Nayak

download [page 40-66]




4 Water for food

Water for food: corruption in irrigation systems

Frank R. Rijsberman

Power, bribery and fairness in Pakistan’s canal irrigation systems

Jean-Daniel Rinaudo

Questionable irrigation deals ignore plight of Filipino farmers

Sonny Africa

Sealing water aid against corruption: donor interventions, donor responsibilities

Grit Martinez and Kathleen Shordt

download [page 67-84]




5 Water for energy

Water for energy: corruption in the hydropower sector

Lawrence Haas

Hydropower corruption and the politics of resettlement

Thayer Scudder

The disappearance of homes and money: the case of the Three Gorges Dam

Gørild M. Heggelund

Industry view: public–private hydropower – minimising the corruption risks

Kathy Shandling and Reinier Lock

Grand projects – grand corruption?

Peter Bosshard and Nicholas Hildyard

download [page 85-105]




6 Conclusions

Fighting corruption in water: strategies, tools and ways forward

Donal T. O’Leary and Patrik Stålgren

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Part two: Country reports


7 Corruption through a national lens

Introduction

Rebecca Dobson (Transparency International)

download [page 121-123]




7.1 Africa and the Middle East

Cameroon

Raymond Dou’a and Maurice Nguefack (TI Cameroon)

Kenya

Lisa Karanja, Kennedy Masime, Fred Owegi and Lawrence Gikaru (TI Kenya)

Niger

Idrissa Alichina Kourgueni (Association Nigérienne de Lutte contre la Corruption – TI Niger)

Palestinian Authority

Frosse Dabit (Transparency Palestine – AMAN)

Senegal

Semou Ndiaye (Forum Civil – TI Senegal)

Sierra Leone

Yusuf Umaru Dalhatu (National Accountability Group – TI local partner, Sierra Leone)

Zambia

Louis Bwalya, Goodwell Lungu and Kavwanga Yambayamba (TI Zambia)

download [page 123-155]



7.2 Americas

Argentina

Federico Arenoso, Gastón Rosenberg, Martín Astarita, Pablo Secchi, Varina Suleiman and Lucila Polzinetti (Poder Ciudadano – TI Argentina)

Chile

Felipe de Solar (TI Chile)

Mexico

Transparencia Mexicana (TI Mexico)

Nicaragua

Byron López Rivera (Grupo Cívico Ética y Transparencia – TI Nicaragua)

Paraguay

Carlos Filártiga (TI Paraguay)

United States

TI USA

download [page 156-180]



7.3 Asia and the Pacific

Bangladesh

Iftekhar Zaman and Tanvir Mahmud (TI Bangladesh)

India

Paramjit S. Bawa (TI India)

Indonesia

Anung Karyadi (TI Indonesia)

Japan

Toru Umeda, Keiichi Yamazahi and Minoru O’uchi (TI Japan)

Malaysia

Richard Y. W. Yeoh and Natalie P. W. Ng (TI Malaysia)

Nepal

Ramesh Nath Dhungel (TI Nepal)

Pakistan

Syed Adil Gilani (TI Pakistan)

Papua New Guinea

TI Papua New Guinea

Philippines

Segundo Romero, Dolores Español and Aileen Laus (TI Philippines)

download [page 181-224]



7.4 Europe and Central Asia

Armenia

Sona Ayvazyan (Center for Regional Development – TIArmenia)

Austria

Hubert Sickinger (TI Austria)

Georgia

Camrin Christensen and Tamuna Karosanidze (TI Georgia)

Germany

Dagmar Schröder-Huse (TI Germany)

Israel

Doron Navot (Hebrew University and the Israel Democracy Institute)

Latvia

Lıga Stafecka and Zanda Garanca (TI Latvia)

Montenegro

Vanja Calovic (The Network for Affirmation of the NGO Sector – MANS)

Romania

Iulia Cospanaru, Matthew Loftis and Andreea Nastase (TI Romania)

Slovakia

Emilia Sicáková-Beblava (TI Slovakia)

Spain

Manuel Villoria (TI Spain)

Switzerland

TI Switzerland

Ukraine

Anna Yarovaya and Olga Mashtaler (NGO ‘Anticorruption Committee’ – TI national contact group, Ukraine)

United Kingdom

TI UK

download [page 225-292]


Part three: Research


Introduction

Dieter Zinnbauer

download [page 291-295]



8 The big picture: measuring corruption and benchmarking progress

in the fight against corruption

Corruption Perceptions Index 2007

Johann Graf Lambsdorff

Global Corruption Barometer 2007

Juanita Riaño

Global Integrity Report

Jonathan Werve and Nathaniel Heller

The Americas Barometer 2006: report on corruption

Mitchell A. Seligson and Dominique Zéphyr

The World Governance Assessment: corruption and other dimensions of governance

Verena Fritz, Ken Mease, Marta Foresti and Goran Hyden

National Integrity System scoring system

Sarah Repucci

download [page 296-320]



9 Sectoral insights: capturing corruption risks and performance in key sectors

Promoting Revenue Transparency Project: from resource curse to resource blessing?

Juanita Olaya

Crinis: measuring accountability, disclosure and oversight on who finances whom in politics

Bruno W. Speck and Silke Pfeiffer

download [page 321-327]



10 Understanding the details: investigating the dynamics of corruption

Bridging the gap between the experience and the perception of corruption

Richard Rose and William Mishler

Corrupt reciprocity

Johann Graf Lambsdorff

The simple economics of extortion: evidence from trucking in Aceh

Benjamin A. Olken and Patrick Barron

Corruption, norms and legal enforcement: evidence from diplomatic parking tickets

Ray Fisman and Edward Miguel

Petty corruption in public services: driving licences in Delhi

Rema Hanna, Simeon Djankov, Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan

Corruption and institutional trust in sub-Saharan Africa

Emmanuelle Lavallée

download [page 328-345]



Errata

-p. 99: the Itá dam is in Brazil, not Uruguay

-p. 313 should read: In Uruguay fewer than 10 per cent of the population were asked to pay a bribe in the twelve months preceding the interview.



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