A special thank you to Rachel Rank for all her help in the early stages of preparing the report, and to interns Justyna Pietralik, Sophia Mahmoud, Dominic Elliott and ValĂŠrie Callaghan. Particular thanks go to the Washington, DC and London offices of Covington & Burling for their excellent legal work and to the London-based Solicitors Pro Bono Group. Finally, we thank our publisher, Pluto Press, for their ongoing enthusiasm for our publication, and our external editors, Michael Griffin and Sarah Blair, for their good humour, patience and talent. The Global Corruption Report receives financial support from the governments of Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. The translation of the 2005 report into French has been funded by a grant to Transparency International from the Canadian International Development Agency.
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