Volume 2

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Contents

[5]Executive summary

1. Ukraine: the New Sick Country of Europe

2. Bulgarian Anti-Corruption Reforms: a Lost Decade?

3. The Unlikely Achiever: Rwanda

4. Doubts and Lessons Learned from Qatar’s Progress Towards Good Governance

5. Are EU Funds a Corruption Risk? The Impact of EU Funds on Grand Corruption in Central and Eastern Europe

6. Why Control of Corruption Works - When it Does

Appendix

Acknowledgements

[6]Authors

Alessandro Bozzini is a researcher who was commissioned by with GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies for this study. He previously worked as a technical advisor to both Transparency International and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Rwanda, (alessandrobozzini@gmail.com).

Mihály Fazekas, PhD, is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, UK, (mf436@cam.ac.uk).

Jana Gutierréz Chvalkovská is a PhD student at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (jana.chvalkovska@gmail.com).

Lina Khatib, PhD, is Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon, (lkhatib@carnegie-mec.org).

Lawrence Peter King, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK, (lk285@cam.ac.uk).

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, PhD, is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School of Governance and Director of the European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building, Berlin, Germany, (pippidi@hertie-school.org).

Jiří Skuhrovec is a PhD student at the Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, (jskuhrovec@gmail.com).

Ruslan Stefanov is Director of the Economic Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, (ruslan.stefanov@online.bg).

Alexander Stoyanov is Director of Research at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, (alexander.stoyanov@vitosha-research.com).

István János Tóth, PhD, is Co-director at the Corruption Research Center, Budapest, Hungary, (tothij@econ.core.hu).

Boryana Velcheva is an Analyst in the Economic Program at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Sofia, Bulgaria, (boryana.velcheva@onlin.bg).

Andrew Wilson, PhD, is Reader in Ukrainian Studies at University College, London, UK, (tjmsalw@ucl.ac.uk).

All these contributions were given as part of the European Union Seventh Framework Research Project ANTICORRP (Anti-corruption Policies Revisited: Global Trends and European Responses to the Challenge of Corruption). The views expressed in this report are solely those of the authors and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.