The Book

'Global Corruption' represents the author's accumulated experience working extensively in the developing world, co-founding TI and developing strategies to combat governmental and corporate indifference to corruption issues in both the developed world and developing world.

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"Corruption is a tax on development, whose main victims are the world's poorest people. But wherever it grows, it hollows out governing institutions and undermines prosperity and stability.Laurence Cockcroft has written a brilliant analysis of its scale and malign results. His book deserves a place on the library shelf of everyone committed to a sustainable development in free and plural societies"

-Lord Patten , former European Commissioner and former Governor of Hong Kong

"Laurence Cockcroft has built a formidable reputation as an anti-corruption crusader and co-founder of Transparency International. He deserves personal credit for the development of anti-bribery legislation. His views on the way forward deserve close attention."

-Vince Cable

"You can save a lot of money and time by reading this book in which Laurence Cockcroft provides a candid narrative, distilling his experience in countries all over the world on corruption and its possible solutions. This makes for fascinating reading; Cockcroft allows you to understand that there is no chaos but only complexity."

-Luis Moreno-Ocampo , former Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court

"This thought-provoking book takes a wide sweep through the cause of corruption and its historical reality. It is a problem that will never disappear but must be constantly challenged and contained. This book will assist the struggle."

-Clare Short , Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) and former Secretary of State for International Development