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 …

-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 …

The emergence of institutions, governance and especially corruption as major development considerations has generated a … corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. The study draws on a wave of original surveys coordinated by the authors and … corruption and its characteristics. The second type (mirror survey) reports on 350 experts’ opinions on the matter. A comparison …

This paper analyzes the impact of corruption on the extent of trust in political institutions using a rich collection …, we set out to test the “efficient grease” hypothesis that corruption can strengthen citizens’ trust since bribe paying … institutional trust. Our findings reject this theoretical argument. We show that corruption never produces trust-enhancing effects …