Corruption, grabbing and development
Subtitle: real world challenges
By: edited by Tina Søreide, Aled Williams
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781782544401; 9781782544418
Subjects: Political corruption; Case studies; Corruption; Corruption / Economic aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Corruption and collusion in construction : a view from the industry  -- Jill Wells; title: Rents extraction in the sub-Saharan Africa port sector  -- Gaël Raballand and Jean-François Marteau; title: Resource grabs  -- Philippe Le Billon; title: Grabbing in the education sector  -- Muriel Poisson; title: Courts, corruption and judicial independence  -- Siri Gloppen; title: Grabbing by strangers : crime and policing in Kenya  -- Jens Chr. Andvig and Tiberius Barasa; title: Grabbing land in Malawi  -- Blessings Chinsinga and Liam Wren-Lewis; title: Using salaries as a deterrent to informal payments in the health sector  -- Ida Lindkvist; title: Financial 'blood-letting' in the Colombian health system : rent-seeking in a public health insurance fund  -- Karen Hussmann and Juan Carlos Rivillas; title: Transport infrastructure failures in Spain : mismanagement and incompetence, or political capture?  -- Germà Bel, Antonio Estache and Renaud Foucart; title: 'Pay up and off you go!' Buying political positions in Bangladesh  -- Inge Amundsen; title: Monopolising reconstruction : Angolan elites and Chinese credit lines  -- Lucy Corkin; title: Grabbing an election : abuse of state resources in the 2011 elections in Uganda  -- Svein-Erik Helle and Lise Rakner; title: Elite capture of Kabul Bank  -- Arne Strand; title: Don't rock the boat : Norway's difficulties in dealing with corruption in development aid  -- Eirik G. Jansen; title: When per diems take over : training and travel as extra pay -- Ingvild Aagedal Skage, Tina Søreide and Arne Tostensen.