Hamilton, NY – A group of experts on economic development will participate in a symposium titled “Corruption and Development: The Scope of the Damage, The Hope for Reform” at Colgate University on Thursday, November 16 at 4:00 p.m. The symposium, sponsored by Colgate’s Center for Ethics and World Societies, is free and open to the public and will take place in 27 Persson Hall.

Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science and co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale University. As a visiting fellow at the World Bank in 1995-96, she researched corruption and economic development. The author of several books including Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform (1999), Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State (1992); and Corruption: A Study in Political Economy (1978), she is an expert in comparative regulatory law and policy, the political economy of corruption, public policy and administrative law, and law and economics.  

A list of other publications by Ms. Rose-Ackerman is available; click here.

A native of Sierra Leone, Sahr J. Kpundeh is a member of the Governance Team in the World Bank Institute working on anti-corruption and governance. Kpundeh has been a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the U.N. Development Programme, and several commercial firms. He is the author of Politics and Corruption in Africa: A Case Study of Sierra Leone (1995); co-author of USAID Handbook for Fighting Corruption (1998); and co-editor of Corruption and Integrity Improvement Initiatives in Developing Countries (1998) and Curbing Corruption: Toward a Model for Building National Integrity (1999).  

Corruption and Corruption Control in Africa, by Sahr J. Kpundeh is available for downloading, in Adobe *.pdf format, by clicking on the title. A list of other publications by Mr. Kpundeh is available; click here.

Donald Sherk is director of management consulting and regional representative-Africa for International Business and Technical Consultants, Inc. of Vienna, Virginia. He has combined a career in international trade, investment, and developmental policy working in major international development institutions. While working for the U.S. Department of Treasury, he was the U.S. executive director to the African Development Bank and the U.S. alternate director to the Asian Development Bank. He has specialized in development policy strategies, project finance, regional trade, and investment patterns in Africa and the Asia/Pacific area, and multilateral economic policy formation.

Corruption in Africa: Reflections on Nigeria, by Donald Sherk is available for downloading, in Adobe *.pdf format, by clicking on the title. A list of other publications by Mr. Kpundeh is available; click here.

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