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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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Part three: Research

Introduction

Dieter Zinnbauer

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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

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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

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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

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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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