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The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption

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Corruption and Development

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Abstract

This chapter begins by tracing the origins of the global anti-corruption agenda, which emerged in the mid-1990s from the US government’s perception of foreign corruption as a commercial and security threat. The World Bank and the IMF repackaged their policy advice, prescribing deregulation to reduce opportunities for officials to collect bribes. Founded by a former World Bank official in 1993, Transparency International began to publish a corruption perception index to raise awareness about the problem. Economists seized on such quantifications of corruption (despite their problematic methodology), to produce econometric studies in support of the largely neoliberal global agenda.

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Ivanov, K.S. (2007). The Limits of a Global Campaign against Corruption. In: Bracking, S. (eds) Corruption and Development. Palgrave Studies in Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230590625_2

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