illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption and economic growth in Nigeria. We proposed anti-corruption …

corruption on the one hand, and growth and investment on the other, and it highlights the costs to economies where the state is …

grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …

traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …

Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of …—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides no guidance as to the direction of causality—on the one hand, reforms make … politicians accountable to voters, as well as introduce more competition, which should decrease corruption. On the other hand, the …

survey of enterprises carried out for the GCR, we find that firms from emerging economies single out corruption and excessive …

There has been a lot of works on corruption cases. We must think that corruption is a cultural aspect in a social life …. We cannot separate the corruption with the cultural system where the corruption raised. Indonesia has been recorded to be … one of the countries of the worst economic and political system on corruption case. The paper is introducing the usage of …

There is a growing evidence that political corruption is often closely associated with the rent seeking activities of … groups and the incidence of political corruption and determines whether electoral competition can eliminate political … corruption. We obtain some striking results. Greater electoral competition serves to lessen policy distortions. However, this in …