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TACKLING CORRUPTION, TRANSFORMING LIVES
Accelerating Human Development in Asia and the Pacific

Published for the United Nations Development Programme

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TEAM FOR THE PREPARATION OF THE
Asia-Pacific Human Development Report TACKLING CORRUPTION, TRANSFORMING LIVES Team Leader Anuradha Rajivan
Core Team: Gry Ballestad, Elena Borsatti, Ramesh Gampat, Renata Rubian, Niranjan Sarangi, Ruwanthi Senarathne, Omar Siddique, Manoja Wickramarathne Statistics team: Ramesh Gampat, Niranjan Sarangi, Ruwanthi Senarathne, Manoja Wickramarathne Editor: Peter Stalker Designer: Rustam Vania Publishers: Macmillan India Ltd. The Asia-Pacific Human Development Report Unit (HDRU), Regional Centre in Colombo (RCC) The HDRU team members, both past and present, who worked on this collaborative...