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Haarhuis CMK & Leeuw FL 2004. Fighting governmental corruption: the new World Bank programme
evaluated. Journal of international development 16: 547–561
This paper reconstructs and assesses the most recent version of this World Bank’s training programme
is. Several core approaches in the programme, such as the strengthening of civil society and the
privatisation of parastatals, turn out to have unintended consequences. The empirical support is largely
case-specific and turns out to be highly conditional. It is concluded that indicators need to be developed
to assess the relevance of national anti-corruption policies to country-specific governance and anticorruption
conditions.
Heilbrunn J 2004. Anti-corruption commissions: panacea or real medicine to fight corruption? World Bank
Institute working paper 33028. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/WBI/Resources/wbi37234Heilbrunn.pdf
This paper argues that anti-corruption commissions fail to reduce public sector venality in all but a
few special circumstances. It notes that those governments that have established successful anticorruption
commissions have done so in response to demands for reform from a broad base of
domestic constituents. Demands for reform generally occur after a precipitating crisis has caused deep
economic hardship and a national consensus exists that reforms must be implemented. Anti-corruption
commissions are effective when they respond to that national consensus and a broad domestic coalition
supports reform. Without the precipitating crisis, building such domestic coalitions is a challenge for even
the most popular leaders. When support is more tenuous, policy makers have an incentive to weaken
reforms and avoid any threat to powerful constituents who profit from official inattention to expenditures,
access to governments contracts, and other manifestations of public sector inefficiency.
Hosen N 2004.The Habibie Government and anti-corruption reform in Indonesia. Asia Pacific law review
12(1): 53–68
This paper provides an analysis of the relevant law and why it failed in achieving its objective of
maintaining adequate standards to promote good governance and the rule of law.
The importance of going straight. The economist 11 Dec: 6–8 supplement.
http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=3444283
This paper features Indonesia Corruption Watch, a local nongovernmental organisation, which has
uncovered no fewer than 67 suspect budgetary manoeuvres in other local assemblies.
Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission 2004. Progress Report on the first half of 2004.
http://www1.oecd.org/daf/asiacom/pdf/indonesia_progressreport_0104.pdf
This paper outlines the nature and role of the Commission for the Eradication of Corruption (Indonesia)
and provides details of the accomplishments of the Commission during its first six months of operation
and explores what the Commission plans to achieve in the future.
Johnson DT 2004. The prosecution of corruption in South Korea: achievements, problems and
prospects, in Ginsburg T (ed), Legal reform in Korea. New York: RoutledgeCurzon: 47–70
This paper examines the role that prosecutors played in South Korea’s anti-corruption efforts and
explores problems which existed in relation to prosecutions by examining the tensions and trade-offs
made in order to rectify those problems.
Kaufmann D 2004. Corruption, governance and security: challenges for the rich countries and the world.
Washington DC: World Bank. http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWBIGOVANTCOR/Resources/
Kaufmann_GCR_101904_B.pdf
This paper adopts an empirical approach based on the analysis of the 2004 survey of enterprises by
the World Economic Forum. It challenges traditional notions of governance and corruption challenges
and suggests that the undue emphasis on narrow legalism has obscured more subtle yet costly
manifestations of misgovernance, which afflict rich countries as well. Emphasis is also given in the paper