The Enemy Within: Combating Corruption in Asia

The editors weave academic and specialized analyses of corruption in Asia since the 1997 economic crisis together with lessons drawn by practitioners, nongovernmental organizations, journalists, and anti-corruption activists. Articles consider the wider context of the challenges of corruption; examine specific countries, sectors of society, and strategies for fighting corruption; and look at efforts to address the problem in Singapore an imperfect nation that is nevertheless consistently rated as the least corrupt in Asia. The collection stems from a 2001 conference organized by the Singapore Institute of International Affairs with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)