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Corruption and the Church - Martin Allaby
Corruption
and the Church
Voices from the Global South
Corruption
and the Church
Voices from the Global South
Martin Allaby
Copyright © Martin Allaby 2018
First published 2018 by Regnum Books International
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Dedication
This book is dedicated to all the brave and determined people who are showing by example what it means to fight corruption. We are all in their debt.
Acknowledgements
Many people helped with the research that went into this book. My research supervisors, Deryke Belshaw and Peter Clarke, helped to shape my ideas by critiquing draft chapters and advising on direction at critical points. David Lumsdaine helped me to think more clearly about social science methods, while Ben Knighton helped me improve my analysis and interpretation of my interview material. Students and staff at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, and friends and colleagues in Kathmandu, helped me develop my ideas through their comments during various research seminars. Gabriele Price gave valuable advice on the multiple regression analysis.
All my key informants were generous in sharing their experiences and opinions. I could not have met some of them without the help of several people who arranged introductions for me: Joy Famador, Vylma Ovalles, and Niels and Amyjay Riconalla in the Philippines; Reginald Nalugala for Kenya; Joshua Banda and Lawrence Temfwe in Zambia; and Graham Gordon in Peru. Anna Porter was generous with her time in helping me to find my way round Lima, and she translated most of the interviews there. My daughters Elaine and Lydia transcribed most of the interviews. Melba Maggay, Ben Knighton, Irene Mutalima and Graham Gordon reviewed the draft chapters on the Philippines, Kenya, Zambia and Peru, respectively. All the deficiencies that remain are mine.
I am grateful to all the individuals and churches that supported this work financially through their donations to Interserve, which was my employer during most of this research. My wife, Sue, was a constant source of encouragement and she kept our family intact in Kathmandu while I was away in Oxford or in the case-study countries, not least during Nepal’s revolution in April 2006.
Contents
Introduction
Corruption: Its Causes and Remedies
Designing the Country Case Studies
The Philippines
Kenya
Zambia
Peru
Comparisons across the Four Countries
Conclusions
Further Reading
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Economic Inequality and Corruption
This short book is an abbreviated and updated account of a research project started in 2004 and published in its full form in 2013. It began with an attempt to understand why economic inequality is greatest in Christian, and especially Protestant, developing countries, and ended up examining how Christians relate to corruption and how they might be able to influence it. That personal research journey explains why this book focuses on corruption in four low- and middle-income countries, rather than on corruption in high-income countries such as the UK. Had the starting point been corruption alone, I would undoubtedly have needed to write about corruption in high-income countries, including the UK.
The Gini coefficient is probably the most widely used indicator of inequality. It