Author: Transparency International
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: corruption, global, international, reports, transparency, water, report, sector
Number of Pages: 398
Published: 2008-07-14
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521727952
ISBN-13: 9780521727952

Over one billion people live with inadequate access to safe drinking water with dramatic consequences for lives, livelihoods and development. Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2008 demonstrates in its thematic section that corruption is a cause and catalyst for this water crisis which is likely to be further exacerbated by climate change. Corruption affects all aspects of the water sector from water resources management to drinking water services, irrigation and hydropower. Scholars and professionals document the impact of corruption in the sector with case studies fr

Author: Transparency International
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: corruption, global, international, reports, transparency, judicial, report, systems
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521700701
ISBN-13: 9780521700702

The Global Corruption Report 2007 looks at how, why and where corruption mars judicial processes, and to reflect on remedies for corruption-tainted systems. The book focuses on judges and courts but situates them within the broader justice system - police, prosecutors, lawyers and agencies responsible for enforcing judicial decisions. It also looks at the social context of the judiciary and shows how societal expectations, the existence of non-state justice mechanisms and the strength of informal networks that circumvent the justice system, all have a bearing on judicial corruption. The book t

Author: Transparency International
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: corruption, global, international, reports, transparency, private, report, sector
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2009-08-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521132401
ISBN-13: 9780521132404

The private sector plays a pivotal role in fighting corruption worldwide. Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report 2009 documents in unique detail the many corruption risks for businesses, ranging from small entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa to multinationals from Europe and North America. More than 75 experts examine the scale, scope and devastating consequences of a wide range of corruption issues, including bribery and policy capture, corporate fraud, cartels, corruption in supply chains and transnational transactions, emerging challenges for carbon trading markets, sov

Author: Transparency International
Publisher: Pluto Pre
Keywords: corruption, political, focus, report, global, special
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2004-02-20
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 074532231X
ISBN-13: 9780745322315

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. 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 we

Authors:Francis Fukuyama, Transparency International,
Publisher: Pluto Pre
Keywords: corruption, construction, post, focus, special, report, global
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-02-20
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0745323960
ISBN-13: 9780745323961

Worldwide, the construction sector is regularly rated as the most corrupt industry. Even so, the scale and effects of this corruption are frequently underestimated. The 2005 edition of Transparency International�s Global Corruption Report shows that corruption in the construction industry has the power to shape and devastate economies. It has the power to ruin livelihoods and, under certain circumstances, to take lives.This book outlines the particular characteristics of the construction industry that enable the corrupt to plunder the vast amounts of international funds that pour into large-sc

Author: Seppo Tiihone
Publisher: IOS Pre
Keywords: central, corruption, institute, administrative, monographs, international, science, niveau, government, histoire, history, pouvoir
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $141.00
ISBN-10: 1586033166
ISBN-13: 9781586033163

This work is a study of administrative corruption from an historical perspective. It aims to answer questions such as :Can we find general patterns in the development of corruption? What are the connections between administrative corruption, political corruption and development? What is the historical background for present-day corruption? This work is comprised of nine country studies - Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, and the USA. All of them have quite similar development histories with regard to corruption. They have also used similar methods to

Author: Aristotle
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: corruption, generation
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1419138413
ISBN-13: 9781419138416

Further, we are to study growth and ’alteration’. We must inquire what each of them is; and whether ’alteration’ is to be identified with coming-to-be, or whether to these different names there correspond two separate processes with distinct natures.