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'The Global Corruption Report is the first attempt by any organisation to map the global fight against corruption. A kind of travel-guide to the jungle of various standards and practices in different world regions.' Guardian With a focus on political corruption, the 2004 edition of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report (GCR) identifies some of today’s most pressing issues in the fight against corruption around the world. Besides launching Transparency International’s new Standards on Political Finance and Favours, the GCR 2004 also features a league table of the world’s top 10 embezzlers, a key to the best and worst laws regulating politics, and an assessment of recent developments in immunity from prosecution. Essays examine the role of money in politics – assessing the regulation of political party financing, suggesting ways to ‘rewire’ the arms and oil trades for greater transparency and analysing the problem of vote buying. Reports consider attempts to repatriate assets stolen by politicians, disclosure regulations, the nexus between the media, politics and business as well as the issue of immunity from prosecution – with special insight into extradition efforts in the Fujimori case in Peru. The GCR's global and regional reports explore recent developments such as the African Union Convention against Corruption, the EU accession process and the UN Convention against Corruption. Thirty-four country reports provide a critical assessment of new national anti-corruption legislation, institutional reform and the most important corruption-related issues of the last 12 months. This year’s GCR also features special contributions by Jimmy Carter and former UN human rights commissioner Mary Robinson, who argues that ‘corruption hits hardest at the poorest in society’. Their messages are reinforced by that of Gherardo Colombo, whose efforts to prosecute Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi for bribery have drawn substantial media attention. Rounding out the report, a data and research section presents Transparency International’s own Corruption Perceptions Index as well as other recent empirical research, including links between corruption, gender and poverty.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgements Executive summary Access to information and political finance reform: promising policy areas for building transparency - Jimmy Carter Corruption and human rights - Mary Robinson Part one: Political corruption I. Political finance 1. Introduction - Robin Hodess Where did the money go? - Transparency International Standards on Political Finance and Favours - Transparency International 2. Political finance Political money and corruption - Marcin Walecki Soft money reform in the United States: has anything changed? - Michael Johnston The challenge of achieving political equality in South Africa - Judith February and Hennie van Vuuren A selection of the year’s legislation on political party governance, funding and disclosure - Transparency International Political corruption: a global comparison - World Economic Forum Campaign finance reform: is Latin America on the road to transparency? - Bruno Wilhelm Speck The politician’s voice - Musikari Kombo Anna Hazare: TI Integrity Award winner 2003 II. Disclosure and enforcement The role of disclosure in combating corruption in political finance - Gene Ward Ukraine: the authoritarian abuse of disclosure - Marcin Walecki Media discounts for politicians: examples from Latin America - Kevin Casas-Zamora NGO monitoring efforts: Ecuador, India and Latvia - Transparency International Enforcement: how regulation of political party finance is managed in practice - Yves-Marie Doublet Enforcement: the experience in Mexico - Alonso Lujambio António Siba-Siba Macuácua: posthumous TI Integrity Award winner 2003 III. Corporate money The politics of corruption in the arms trade: South Africa’s arms scandal and the Elf affair - Joe Roeber Political corruption and the politics of procurement - Juanita Olaya The Elf trial: political corruption and the oil industry - Nicholas Shaxson Canada’s rules on lobbying: key loopholes remain - Duff Conacher Following the Enron money trail - Larry Noble and Steven Weiss Dora Akunyili: TI Integrity Award winner 2003 IV. Vote buying How vote buying corrodes democracy: evidence from Latin America - Silke Pfeiffer Vote buying in Brazil: less of a problem than believed? - Claudio Weber Abramo Vote buying in East Asia - Frederic Schaffer Vote buying at the International Whaling Commission - Leslie Busby V. Legal hurdles: immunity, extradition and repatriation of stolen wealth Immunity and extradition: obstacles to justice - Véronique Pujas Recent developments on immunity - Transparency International Sua Rimoni Ah Chong: TI Integrity Award winner 2003 Fujimori extraditable - José Ugaz Immunity in the Italian constitutional system - Gherardo Colombo Controlling the media in Italy - Donatella della Porta Abdelhaï Beliardouh: posthumous TI Integrity Award winner 2003 Repatriation of looted state assets: selected case studies and the draft UN Convention against Corruption - Tim Daniel The hunt for looted state assets: the case of Benazir Bhutto - Jeremy Carver Part two: The year in corruption Global and regional reports The UN Convention against Corruption - Peter Rooke The UN Global Compact: an opportunity for tackling corruption - Jermyn Brooks The African Union Convention - Akere Muna Corruption and the EU accession process: who is better prepared? - Quentin Reed Will the OECD Convention stop foreign bribery? - Fritz Heimann Governance, corruption and the Millennium Challenge Account - Steve Radelet, Country reports (34) Part three: Corruption research Introduction to the corruption research section - Pablo Zoido and Larry Chavis Corruption Perceptions Index 2003 - Johann Graf Lambsdorff, TI Global Corruption Barometer 2003 - Transparency International Integrity index for public institutions: measuring corruption risks in Colombia - TI Colombia Corruption indices for Russian regions 2002 - TI Russia Measuring the transparency of political party financing in Bulgaria - TI Bulgaria Benchmarking corruption in South Asia: insights from a household survey - Gopakumar K. Thampi, TI Governance Matters III: New indicators for 1996-2002 and methodological challenges - Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay The University of Pittsburgh Latin America Public Opinion Project’s corruption victimisation scale - Mitchell Seligson How corruption affects economic development - Johann Graf Lambsdorff Corruption and foreign direct investment - Mohsin Habib and Leon Zurawicki International business attitudes toward corruption - John Bray Assessing governance in diverse and complex contexts: evidence from India - Julius Court How elites view corruption and trust in post-Soviet states - Anton Steen The power of information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys - Ritva Reinikka and Jakob Svensson Budget transparency: assessments by civil society in Africa- Joel Friedman Transparency, wages and the separation of powers: an experimental analysis of the causes of corruption - Omar Azfar and William Nelson Gender and corruption in the public sector - Ranjana Mukherjee and Omer Gokcekus Rent-seeking and gender in local government in India - V. Vijayalakshmi Poverty and corruption in Peru - Javier Herrera and François Roubaud Daily corruption in French-speaking Africa - Mireille Razafindrakoto and François Roubaud Index

About the Author :
Transparency International is an politically non-partisan NGO building dedicated solely to curbing corruption, increasing government accountability and improving transparency in business transactions. It has authored several reports on global corruption including, Global Corruption Report 2006 (Pluto, 2005).

Review :
The Global Corruption Report is the first attempt by any organisation to map the global fight against corruption. A kind of travel-guide to the jungle of various standards and practices in different world regions. -- Guardian The contents of Global Corruption 2004 are to be welcomed for re-emphasising the thorough-going rottenness of the capitalist system that has well and truly had its day. -- Marxist review The book's detailed survey of 36 countries unearths some significant scandals. -- Labour Left Briefing The annual Global Corruption Report is a kind of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack of crookedness. It does not just include the raw scores and the statistical constructs around them, but also reviews the highlights of the season, so to speak. '... there can be little doubt that Transparency International is performing an essential function in acting as a kind of clearing house of information -- Howard Davies, The Times Higher Education Supplement One hopes that organisations like transparency international and their excellent reports will continue to provide the much-needed impetus to help make [that] change. -- Morning Star


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781849642439
  • Publisher: Pluto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Special Focus: Political Corruption
  • ISBN-10: 1849642435
  • Publisher Date: 20 Feb 2004
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 368


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