Global Corruption Report 2005 Special Focus: Corruption in Construction and Post-Conflict Resolution
Philippe Le Billon, Liu Faculty, UBC
April 13, 2005
GLOBAL CORRUPTION REPORT 2005
Special Focus:
Corruption in Construction and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
The GCR 2005 focuses on corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction. The book includes expert reports on:
- Post-conflict reconstruction, with a detailed analysis of corruption in Iraq
- The mechanisms of corruption in construction projects, from infrastructure development in Lesotho to public services in Germany
- The economic cost of corruption in infrastructure
- The environmental risks of corruption in construction Corruption on the fault line: earthquake destruction in Italy, Turkey and worldwide
- The role of multilateral development banks and export credit agencies in financing corruption.
It also includes:
- A foreword by Francis Fukuyama
- Detailed assessments of the state of corruption in 40 countries
- TI’s Minimum Standards for Public Contracting and the TI Integrity Pact
- The Business Principles for Countering Bribery in construction
The latest corruption-related research, including studies on the links between corruption and other global issues such as pollution, gender and foreign investment
PART TWO: SPECIAL FEATURE – Corruption in post-conflict reconstruction
Overcoming corruption in the wake of conflict
Philippe Le Billon, Overcoming corruption in the wake of conflict; Reconstruction and the construction sector; Aid and corruption; Reinoud Leenders and Justin Alexander, Case study: Corrupting the new Iraq
Philippe Le Billon is Assistant Professor at the Liu Institute and UBC Department of Geography
Click on the links below for a copy of the special feature,Corruption in post-conflict reconstruction. English and French version both available. For a copy of the complete report visithttp://www.globalcorruptionreport.org/download.html
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