It has been argued that greater transparency is needed to reduce corruption. One way of increasing transparency is … experiment to determine their effect on corruption. Using a sample of democratic countries and two different corruption indices …, I find that countries that adopted FOI laws saw an increase in corruption. Results are robust throughout different …

to explore the impact of a country’s political environment on its level of corruption. The study provides strong evidence … urbanization are associated with a lower level of public sector corruption across all 121 countries. The colonial dummies and …

The paper aims to achieve a synthesis of the systemic connections between corruption, transparency and quality of the … social perception on corruption. Approaching corruption and transparency from the perspective of the public integrity systems … administration etc. The aspects presented are leading to the conclusion that corruption influences seriously the quality of the …

regard to the civil service reform, the decentralization process and fight against corruption in the public administration …This paper aims to analyze, starting from the case of Romania, the degree to which public administration reform … contributes to the reduction of corruption. In this paper, which has its own methodology, the level of corruption is estimated and …

and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular …

transparency measures is presented. The chapter then concludes with a call for a global compact on governance and anti-corruption …A number of popular notions and outright myths on governance and corruption are addressed in this chapter. We … distinguish clearly between governance and anti-corruption, while probing the links between both notions. In so doing we challenge …

Corruption is an issue of increasing visibility in the academic and policy literature on governance and public policy … questionable how effective these attempts have been to date. Corruption has a complex relationship with public sector reform …. Reform is often executed which has as one of its objectives the control of corruption, but reform itself may be a cause of …

depending on a series of factors such as the political system pressure, the administration transparency, the quality of the …The article conveys a series of features of the public administration by using some econometric models. In order to … analysing the corruption, there are used various regression and simultaneous equation models. The corruption level is analysed …

of the most important reasons of the growing of the corruption phenomenon is the lack of transparency of the …This paper aims to analyze the anti-corruption measures taken by Romania, after the fall of communism in 1989, to … obtain a transparent public administration, according to the requirements of the European Union. Taking into account that one …

corruption on economic growth of AFTZ member states. The study employed a panel data analysis for the period 2010-2016, using … Stata Statistical Software. The study findings for the bloc, indicated that corruption, trading across borders, getting …