The GCR 2006 focuses on corruption and health. The book includes expert reports on:

• the risks of corruption in different health care systems
• the scale of the problem: from high-level corruption in Costa Rica to counterfeit medicines in Nigeria to
• health care fraud in the United States
• the costs of corruption in hospital administration and the problem of informal payments for health care
• the impact of corruption at various points of the pharmaceutical chain
• anti-corruption challenges posed by the fight against HIV/AIDS

It also includes:

• a foreword by Mary Robinson
• detailed assessments of the state of corruption in 45 countries
• recommendations for cleaning up the health sector
• examples of successes in preventing health-related bribery, fraud and corruption
• the latest corruption-related research, including studies on the links between corruption and other global
• issues such as pollution, gender and foreign investment
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Algeria: Djilali Hadjadj
Bangladesh: Iftekhar Zaman, Sydur Rahman and Abdul Alim
Bolivia: Guillermo Pou Munt Serrano
Brazil: Ana Luiza Fleck Saibro
Burkina Faso: Luc Damiba
Cameroon: Jean-Bosco Talla and Maurice Nguéfack
China: Guo Yong and Liao Ran
Costa Rica: Roxana Salazar
Croatia: Ana First
Ecuador: Andrés Tobar
Finland: Santeri Eriksson
France: Antoine Genevois
Georgia: Daria Vaisman
Greece: Markella Samara
Guatemala: Alejandro Urizar
Ireland: Elaine Byrne
Israel: Doron Navot
Japan: Transparency International Japan
Kazakhstan: Sergey Zlotnikov
Kenya: Wachira Maina and Noelina Nabwire
Kuwait: Kuwait Economic Society
Kyrgyzstan: Aigul Akmatjanova

Malaysia: Mehrun Siraj and Sunita Chima
Morocco: Azeddine Akesbi, Siham Benchekroun, Kamal El Mesbahi, Rachid Filali Meknassi and Michèle Zirari
Nepal: Rama Krishna Regmee
New Zealand: Shane Cave
Nicaragua: Roberto Courtney
Panama: Angélica Maytín Justiniani
Papua New Guinea: Transparency International Papua New Guinea
Peru: Samuel Rotta Castilla and Leonardo Narvarte Olivares
Poland: Julia Pitera
Romania: Adrian Savin
Serbia: Nemanja Nenadic
Slovakia: Emilia Sicáková-Beblavá
South: Africa Ayesha Kajee
South Korea: Geo-Sung Kim
Spain: Manuel Villoria
Sri Lanka: Anushika Amarasinghe
Switzerland: Jeffrey Nilsen, Anne Schwöbel and Stefanie Teickner
Uganda: Charles Mubbale and Paul Onapa
Ukraine: Transparency International
United Kingdom: Transparency International (UK)
United States of America: Nancy Izzo Jackson with Michael Johnston, Mark Glaze, Holly Gregory and Chris Yukins
Vanuatu: Anita Jowitt
Venezuela: Transparencia Venezuela

Johann Graf Lambsdorff: Ten years of the CPI: determining trends;
Johann Graf Lambsdorff, Corruption Perceptions Index 2005;
Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi, Governance matters IV: new data, new challenges;
Edward Glaeser and Raven Saks, Corruption in the United States of America;
Saadia Zahidi, Transparency and its impact on financial fragility;
Pamela Gomez, Budget transparency survey;
Elizabeth Lort-Phillips and Vanessa Herringshaw, Beyond the rhetoric: measuring revenue transparency in the oil and gas industry;
Transparencia Mexicana, Benchmarking corporate reputation: an incentive for good anti-corruption practice;
Ranjana Mukherjee and Omer Gokcekus, Officials’ asset declaration laws: do they prevent corruption?

Ralf Lanwehr, Tax evasion, fines and corruption in Mozambique;
Michal Šticka, The V4 index: corruption propensity in four Visegrád capitals;
Marcos Jose Mendes, Efficiency of federal transfers to municipalities in Brazil;
Transparencia por Colombia, Integrity Index for Public Institutions: evaluating Colombia’s health sector;
Iftekhar Zaman and Alim Abdul, Corruption in the public health service in Bangladesh;
Patrick Meagher, Governance in Bulgaria’s pharmaceutical selection and procurement systems;
Eric Kite and Margaret Sarles, Survey research sheds light on Latin Americans’ experience with corruption:
TI Palestine/the Coalition for Accountability and Integrity (AMAN), Corruption in Palestinian society;

Errata:

Page 217, line 12 should read: "and pay journalists during the administrations of Ernesto Pérez Balladares (1994–99) and Mireya Moscoso (1999–2004)."