incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption … Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked register score below 3, indicating that corruption is perceived as rampant …. However, to the best of our knowledge the corruption and informality nexus has never been explored in comprehensive empirical …

This article analyzes individual perceptions of the linkage between corruption and trust in political institutions in … 16 African democracies. Using perceived corruption and experienced corruption as indicators, it tests the functionalist … theories that portray corruption as a way to increase trust in political institutions by compensating for their …

-Saharan Africa, an area of the world where corruption is widespread. This paper empirical basis is a rich collection of comparable … results about the exposure to corruption and the use of public services as well. Our findings notably show that ethnic and … religious belongings, which are traditionally put forward in the literature about corruption in this continent, do not have a so …

; the “need for the State”, particularly of the poorest; the extent of petty corruption; the reliability of expert surveys …

This study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. It draws on a wave of … of over 35,000 people and uses experience-based questions to measure petty bureaucratic corruption. The second (Mirror …