Global Corruption Report 2005: Corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction

Notes 1. Heinz Welsch is professor of economics at the University of Oldenburg, Germany. Contact: heinz.welsch@uni-oldenburg.de 2. Heinz Welsch, ‘Corruption, Growth, and the Environment: A Cross-Country Analysis’, Environment and Development Economics 9 (2004). 3. The equation system was estimated using the method of ‘seemingly unrelated regressions’ (assuming that corruption is independent of income and pollution).

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Global Corruption Report 2005: Corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction

Published on Mar 15, 2005

Transparency International

The Global Corruption Report 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, such as earthquake destruction in Italy, Turkey and worldwide; and the role of multilateral development banks and export credit agencies in financing corruption.

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