Corruption and Development: The Anti-Corruption Campaigns

✍ Scribed by Sarah Bracking (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 329
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Development
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Political Development and Corruption: Why ‘Right Here, Right Now!’?....Pages 3-27
The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption....Pages 28-45
Economic Models of Corruption....Pages 46-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Tickling Donors and Tackling Opponents: the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Malawi....Pages 77-102
Corruption and Reform in Nigeria....Pages 103-120
Challenges to the Philippine Culture of Corruption....Pages 121-137
Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policies in Post-Communist Countries....Pages 138-154
Political Corruption in Georgia....Pages 155-166
Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Institution Building Interventions in Jamaica....Pages 167-181
Governance, Neoliberalism and Corruption in Nicaragua....Pages 182-201
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana: Does Gender Matter?....Pages 205-220
Upgrading Democracy in Mozambique: the Question of Party and Election Finance....Pages 221-235
Accountability in Development Finance Projects: Between the Market and a Soft Place....Pages 236-257
Why Anti-Corruption Initiatives Fail: Technology Transfer and Contextual Collision....Pages 258-272
Strengthening Checks and Balances in Financial Governance: the Evolving Role of Multilateral Banks in Latin America....Pages 273-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Conclusion....Pages 295-303
Back Matter....Pages 304-310

✦ Subjects

Development Policy; Development Studies; Political Economy; Political Science; Sociology, general; Development Economics