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A CONSULTATION ON CORRUPTION ANDCOUNTER-CORRUPTION ACROSS ASIA
Introduction: Corruption and counter-corruption across Asia 2
Editorial board
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Elimination of corruption and the creating of conditions fortransparency, integrity and accountability 6
Statement of participants at the Regional Consultation on Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in Asia, 11-15 January 2010, Hong Kong
Bribery and corruption control in Sri Lanka13
Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, Attorney-at-Law &
Sunday Times
Columnist, and Jayantha de Almeida Guneratne, President’s Counsel,Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission18
Mochammad Jasin, Commissioner,Corruption Eradication Commission, Indonesia
Challenges in combating corruption: Lessons from Indonesia28
Adnan Topan Husodo, Deputy Coordinator,Indonesia Corruption Watch
The nature of corruption and anti-corruption strategies inPakistan33
Asad Sayeed, Director, Collective for Social Science Research,Karachi
Fighting corruption from the bottom: The case of Thailand41
Charas Suwanmala, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Political Science,Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
Anti-corruption mechanisms in Bangladesh48
M. Shamsul Haque, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh
Mechanisms to address corruption in Cambodia53
Sek Barisoth, Director of Media Program, Pact Cambodia
State-patronized corruption and poverty in Madhya Pradesh62
Rolly Shivhare & Sachin Kumar Jain,Vikas Samvad Advocacy Resource Organisation, Bhopal, India
Some closing thoughts about corruption across Asia79
Basil Fernando, Director, Asian Human Rights Commission & Asian Legal Resource Centre, Hong Kong