Subject(s): Political corruption -- Construction industry -- Corrupt practices -- Transparency international's minimum standards for public contracting -- Corruption in construction -- Costs of corruption : Blowing whistle on corruption, economic costs of corruption in infrastructure, environment at risk from monuments of corruption, earthquake destruction on fault line, Italian mafia's legacy of high rise death traps, Turkish homeowners demand an end to earthquake devastation -- Corruption in practice : Lesotho puts international business in dock, exposing the foundations of corruption in construction, business perspective- promoting integrity in consulting engineering, integrity pact sheds light on Mexican electricity tender, WEF task adopts the business principles for countering bribery, oversized incinerator burns up cologne's cash -- International finance and corruption : Role of multilateral development banks and export credit agencies, black listing corrupt companies -- Corruption in post conflict reconstruction : Overcoming corruption in wake of conflict - reconstruction and construction sector- aid and corruption, corrupting the new Iraq -- Key developments in corruption across countries, country reports -- Research on corruption : Corruption perceptions index 2004, global corruption barometer 2004, national integrity system in pacific island states, Kenya bribery index 2004, measuring corruption in public service delivery in Mexico -- Public integrity index- assessing anti-corruption architecture, survey of governance in 30 underperforming states, global index of bribery for new coverage, trust and corruption, experimental economics and corruption, international determinants of national corruption levels, corruption in transition economies, transparency and accountability in public sector in Arab region, Latin American index of budget transparency, Latin American public opinion project, corruption and crime, measuring corruption - validating subjective surveys of perceptions, experiment based on survey in francophone Africa, gender and corruption, corruption, pollution and economic development, firm responses to corruption in foreign markets, effect of corruption on trade and FDI, firms, bureaucrats and organized crime- empirical examination of illicit interactions