Books

The World Bank Institute has participated in the elaboration of a number of books in governance and anticorruption. To learn more about these publications, read others’ comments on them, or make a comment yourself, please select ‘Abstract’.

• Anticorruption in Transition 2 - Corruption in Enterprise-State Interactions in Europe and Central Asia 1999-2002 (ACT2)
  March 2004 • World Bank Press Release • Full text
  
  
• Money in Politics Handbook: A Guide to Increasing Transparency in Emerging Democracies
  A publication of the USAID Office of Democracy and Governance Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance • November 2003 • G. Ward, M. Pinto-Duschinsky, H. Alexander, IFES • Full text (1.71 Mb PDF)
  
  
• Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries
  September 2003 • Edited by G. Fields and G. Pfeffermann • Abstract
  
  
• Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey
  May 2003 • G. Batra, D. Kaufmann and A. Stone
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• African Media Online, Second Edition (an Internet handbook for African journalists, useful for all journalists)
  February 2001 • Edited by K. Naidoo
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• The Quality of Growth (a new book on development published by Oxford University Press)
  September 2000 • V. Thomas, M. Dailami, A. Dhareshwar, D. Kaufmann, N. Kishor, R. E. Lopez, and Y. Wang
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• Helping Countries Combat Corruption: Progress at the World Bank since 1997
  September 2000 • OCS/PREM
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• TI Source Book 2000 - Confronting Corruption: The Elements of a National Integrity System
  2000 • Jeremy Pope
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• Anticorruption in Transition: A Contribution to the Policy Debate
  September 2000 • A World Bank Publication
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• Corrupt Cities: A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention
  2000 • R. Klitgaard, R. Maclean-Abaroa, and H. L. Parris
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• Curbing Corruption
  2000 • Edited by R. Stapenhurst and S. Kpundeh
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• A review of Corruption and the Global Economy (a publication of the International Institute of Economics)
  1997 • Review by D. Kaufmann, book by K. A. Elliott
  Full text in English (39 kb PDF) • Texto completo en español (40 kb PDF) • Texte complète en français (34 kb PDF) • Complete text in Chinese (742 kb PDF) • Complete text in Arabic (422 kb PDF)

  
  
• New Perspectives on Curbing Corruption (a Joint TI/WBI Publication)
  September 1998 • Compiled by D. Kaufmann, M. Schloss, and WBI/TI colleagues
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• Action Programs in Brief: Towards Collective Action to Improve Governance and Control Corruption in Seven African Countries ("Durban Conference Volume")
  October 1999 • Country teams from Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda
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