Corruption and development : the anti-corruption campaigns / edited by Sarah Bracking ; with a foreword by Deryck R. Brown.

Political development and corruption: why 'right here, right now!'? / Sarah Bracking -- The limits of a global campaign against corruption / Kalin S. Ivanov -- Ecomonic models of corruption / Vincent G. Fitzsimons -- Tickling donors and tackling opponents: the anti-corruption campaign in Malawi / David Hall-Matthews -- Corruption and reform in Nigeria / Paul Okojie and Abubakar Momoh -- Challenges to the Philippine culture of corruption / Edna Estifania A. Co -- Challenges of anti-corruption policies in post-communist countries / Anastassiya Zagainova -- Political corruption in Georgia / Nina Dadalauri -- Corruption scandals and anti-corruption institution building interventions in Jamaica / Philip Duku Osei -- Governance, neoliberalism, and corruption in Nicaragua / Ed Brown, Jonathan Cloke, and Jose ́Luis Rocha -- Fighting public sector corruption in Ghana: does gender matter? / Namawu Alhassan Alolo -- Upgrading democracy in Mozambique: the question of party and election finance / Bruno Wilhelm Speck -- Accountability in development finance projects: between the market and a soft place / Sarah Bracking -- Why anti-corruption initiatives fail: technology transfer and contextual collision / Richard Heeks -- Strengthening checks and balances in financial governance: the evolving role of multiculutural banks in Latin America / Carlos Santiso.

Based on papers from a conference entitled "Redesigning the State: Political Corruption in Development Theory and Practice?" organized by the Global Poverty Research Group at the University of Manchester on November 25th, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.