This book aims at making a technical and independent contribution to such debate; it summarizes the knowledge available about the challenges to be faced by the new administration.

First Published in 1994.

This is the only book that comments on the first international agreement addressed to fight corruption in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

It plays a crucial role in knitting together our past, present, and future.The essays in this volume present grounded examinations of particular problems, places, and practices and address the ways in which memory works in and through law, ...

This book offers the reader a broader view of the human rights approach towards combating corruption - including the arguments of those who oppose this approach - while it also considers how corruption may violate individual civil, ...

This book chronicles the global anticorruption steps taken since the movement advanced after the end of the Cold War.

The volume concludes with a comparison of the lessons drawn from these essays to the evolution of anticorruption policy in Latin America over the past two decades.

By doing so, this book also presents how UN human rights bodies are referring to corruption, and how they could contribute more to fighting this global problem.