The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges

The Changing Face of Corruption in the Asia Pacific: Current Perspectives and Future Challenges is a contemporary analysis of corruption in the Asia-Pacific region. Bringing academicians and practitioners together, contributors to this book discuss the current perspectives of corruption’s challenges in both theory and practice, and what the future challenges will be in addressing corruption’s proliferation in the region.

Includes viewpoints from both practitioners and academic contributors on corruption in the Asia Pacific regionOffers a strong theoretical background together with the practical experience of contributorsExplores what the future challenges will be in addressing corruption’s proliferation in the regionAimed at both the academic and professional audience

1 .The changing face of corruption in the Asia-Pacific Region: Its discontents, current perspectives, and future challenges 2. Political finance and corruption in Southeast Asia: causes and challenges 3. The effect of corruption on foreign direct investment inflows: evidence from a panel of Asia-Pacific countries 4. The role of multinationals in corruption in the Asia-Pacific region 5. Private and public corruption: facilitating payments 6. It Takes Two People to Tango (or more!): the corrupt and debased culture of neoliberalism 7. Corruption, corporate governance, and building institutions in the Asia-Pacific 8. 27 Years of fraud control in the New South Wales public sector: 1989-2016 9. Money laundering activities in Australia - an examination of the push and pull factors driving money flows 10. Corruption in New Zealand: a case of reputational erosion? 11. The limits of anticorruption in China 12. Governance gridlocks and ubiquitous corruption: charting causes, costs, and consequences of corruption in India 13. Competing for public acquaintances: the case of the Reliance group in India 14. Corruption in Vietnam: the current situation and proposed solutions 15. Corruption in Myanmar: insights from business and education 16. From credible threats to credible commitments? the changing face of South Korean corruption 17. Indonesia’s anticorruption campaign: civil society versus the political cartel 18. The road to nowhere: the rise of a neo-patrimonialist state in East Timor 19. The politics of Australian anticorruption policy to Papua New Guinea 20. Business feeling the strain: the changing world of anticorruption and beyond 21. Is it as simple as ABC? A practitioner’s perspective on anti-bribery compliance 22. Petty corruption in developing countries: here for the long term 23. Corruption in the family: financial abuse of older people in Australia 24. Moral corruption in a climate of vulnerability: assessing COP21 25. Future directions for research into corruption and anticorruption practice