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Corruption and Development

The Anti-Corruption Campaigns

  • Sarah Bracking
Book

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Development book series (PSD)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 1-1
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    2. Political Development and Corruption: Why ‘Right Here, Right Now!’?
      Sarah Bracking
      Pages 3-27
    3. The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption
      Kalin S. Ivanov
      Pages 28-45
    4. Economic Models of Corruption
      Vincent G. Fitzsimons
      Pages 46-74

  3. Corruption, Political Development and Anti-Corruption Campaigns

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 75-75
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    2. Tickling Donors and Tackling Opponents: the Anti-Corruption Campaign in Malawi
      David Hall-Matthews
      Pages 77-102
    3. Corruption and Reform in Nigeria
      Paul Okojie, Abubakar Momoh
      Pages 103-120
    4. Challenges to the Philippine Culture of Corruption
      Edna Estifania A. Co
      Pages 121-137
    5. Challenges of Anti-Corruption Policies in Post-Communist Countries
      Anastassiya Zagainova
      Pages 138-154
    6. Political Corruption in Georgia
      Nina Dadalauri
      Pages 155-166
    7. Corruption Scandals and Anti-Corruption Institution Building Interventions in Jamaica
      Philip Duku Osei
      Pages 167-181
    8. Governance, Neoliberalism and Corruption in Nicaragua
      Ed Brown, Jonathan Cloke, José Luis Rocha
      Pages 182-201

  4. Development Policy and Anti-Corruption Initiatives

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 203-203
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    2. Fighting Public Sector Corruption in Ghana: Does Gender Matter?
      Namawu Alhassan Alolo
      Pages 205-220
    3. Upgrading Democracy in Mozambique: the Question of Party and Election Finance
      Bruno Wilhelm Speck
      Pages 221-235
    4. Accountability in Development Finance Projects: Between the Market and a Soft Place
      Sarah Bracking
      Pages 236-257
    5. Why Anti-Corruption Initiatives Fail: Technology Transfer and Contextual Collision
      Richard Heeks
      Pages 258-272
    6. Strengthening Checks and Balances in Financial Governance: the Evolving Role of Multilateral Banks in Latin America
      Carlos Santiso
      Pages 273-292

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 293-293
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    2. Conclusion
      Sarah Bracking, Kalin Ivanov
      Pages 295-303
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 304-310
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About this book

Introduction

This collection examines anti-corruption campaigns and argues that they have often resulted in perverse and unintended consequences. The book examines how corruption has been addressed (and sometimes tolerated) in Africa, Asia, Latin America and East & Central Europe to interrogate government policy and question development discourse and practice.

Keywords

communism corruption democracy development Development Finance gender governance government Institution intervention neoliberalism Policy

Editors and affiliations

  • Sarah Bracking
    • 1
  1. 1.University of ManchesterUK

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