Global Corruption Report 2006

Transparency International has released Global Corruption Report 2006. This year’s edition has a special focus 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:

• 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.

* You can find here information about such CEE countries as Croatia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

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