The GCR 2005 focuses on corruption in construction and post-conflict reconstruction. The book includes expert reports on:

• Post-conflict reconstruction, with a detailed analysis of corruption in Iraq
• The mechanisms of corruption in construction projects, from infrastructure development in Lesotho to public services in Germany
• The economic cost of corruption in infrastructure
• The environmental risks of corruption in construction
• Corruption on the fault line: earthquake destruction in Italy, Turkey and worldwide
• The role of multilateral development banks and export credit agencies in financing corruption.

It also includes:

• A foreword by Francis Fukuyama
• Detailed assessments of the state of corruption in 40 countries
• TI's Minimum Standards for Public Contracting and the TI Integrity Pact
• The Business Principles for Countering Bribery in construction
• The latest corruption-related research, including studies on the links between
• corruption and other global issues such as pollution, gender and foreign investment

Argentina: Laura Alonso, Pilar Arcidiácono, María Julia Pérez Tort and Pablo Secchi
Azerbaijan: Rena Safaralieva
Bangladesh: Md. Abdul Alim
Bolivia: Jorge González Roda
Brazil: Ana Luiza Fleck Saibro
Britain: Michael James Macauley
Burkina Faso: Luc Damiba
Cambodia: Christine J. Nissen
Cameroon: Talla Jean-Bosco
Canada: Maureen Mancuso
China: Guo Yong and Liao Ran
Colombia: Rosa Inés Ospina
Congo (DRC): Anne-Marie Mukwayanzo Mpundu and Gaston Tona Lutete
Costa Rica: Roxana Salazar and Mario Carazo
Croatia: Ana First
Czech Republic: David Ondrácka and Michal Sticka
Georgia: Johanna Dadiani
Germany: Carsten Kremer
Greece: Markella Samara
India: P.S. Bawa
Indonesia: Emmy Hafild
Ireland: Gary Murphy
Japan: TI Japan

Kenya: Parselelo Kantai
Latvia: Inese Voika
Nicaragua: Roberto Courtney
Norway: Jan Borgen, Henrik Makoto Inadomi and Gro Skaaren-Fystro
Palestinian Authority: Jamil Hilal
Panama: Angélica Maytín Justiniani
Peru: Samuel Rotta Castilla
Poland: Julia Pitera
Romania: Adrian Savin
Russia: Marina Savintseva and Petra Stykow
Serbia: Nemanja Nenadic
Slovakia: Emília Sicáková-Beblavá and Daniela Zemanovicová
Sri Lanka: Anushika Amarasinghe
Turkey: Ercis Kurtulus
Vanuatu: Anita Jowitt
Vietnam: Danny Richards
Zimbabwe: Idaische Chengu and Webster Madera

Johann Graf Lambsdorff, Corruption Perceptions Index 2004;
Marie Wolkers, Global Corruption Barometer 2004;
Peter Lamour, National Integrity Systems in the Pacific island states;
Mwalimu Mati and Osendo Con Omore, Kenya Bribery Index 2004;
Transparencia Mexicana, Measuring corruption in the public service delivery: the experience of Mexico;
Marianne Camerer and Jonathan Werve, The Public Integrity Index: assessing anti-corruption architecture;
Sarah Repucci, A survey of governance in 30 underperforming states;

Dean Kruckeberg, Katarina Tsetsura and Frank Ovaitt, Global Index of Bribery for News Coverage;
Eric M. Uslaner, Trust and Corruption;
Jens Chr. Andvig, Experimental economics and corruption: a survey of budding research;
Wayne Sandholtz and Mark Gray, International determinants of national corruption levels;
Cheryl Gray and James Anderson, Corruption in transition economies;
UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Transparency and accountability in the public sector in the Arab region;
Helena Hofbauer, Latin American Index of Budget Transparency;
Mitchell A. Seligson, The Latin American Public Opinion Project: corruption victimisation 2004.

Omar Azfar, Corruption and crime;
Rodrigo R. Soares, Measuring corruption: validating subjective surveys of perceptions;
Mireille Razafindrakoto and Francois Roubaud, How far can we trust expert opinions on corruption? An experiment based on surveys in francophone Africa;
Hung-En Sung, Gender and corruption: in search of better evidence;
Heinz Welsch, Corruption, pollution and economic development;
Klaus Uhlenbruck, Peter Rodriguez, Jonathan Doh and Lorraine Eden, Firm responses to corruption in foreign markets;
Mohsin Habib and Leon Zurawicki, The effect of corruption on trade and FDI;
Larry Chavis, Firms, bureaucrats and organized crime: an empirical examination of illicit interactions.