ABSTRACT
This handbook aims to provide a critical review of the principal issues, trends and challenges of corruption and anti-corruption reform in Asia. The approach to a task of this magnitude required some consideration. If we were simply to evaluate the state of corruption and anticorruption reform in each Asian country, we might produce some interesting empirical material, but probably we would be analytically decient in terms of comparisons within Asia and contributions to the broader issues raised by corruption studies elsewhere. Instead, we have chosen to focus on some central questions relating to corruption which have received some attention from scholars and practitioners around the world but are critically important in the Asian context. Within Asia, there is rich material that can be brought to bear on these questions which can serve to deepen our understanding of the issues and perhaps even help to provide some answers.
