News headlines over the last few years have been filled with global scandals involving corruption on an unprecedented … operating procedures, will result in new corruption scandals in the post-COVID (coronavirus) years. There are already reports in … corruption and how countries are attempting to address this long-standing scourge on development …

law, it only analyses them through their relationship to corruption. The study is based primarily on face …This study analyzes how Rwanda fought administrative corruption in the public sector over the last two decades. The … focus on administrative corruption in the public sector is dictated by the difficulty of assessing, observing, and measuring …

For almost a century, the Dominican Republic has faced considerable governance and corruption challenges. High levels … of corruption were present long time ago, and still prevail today, even if their characteristics and manifestations have … changed. Rule of law has been weak for a long time, and generally government effectiveness has not been high. By contrast, the …

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives …. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of … controlling for various macroeconomic and institutional factors, the development of corruption practices tend to increase the …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

Two competing conceptualizations of corruption in the literature allow viewing it either as efficient or burdensome …' experience of corruption in tax administration. The findings presented in the paper provide provisional support for the second … line of reasoning, that corruption in taxation is a burden, rather than a type of efficiency. Special emphasis is given to …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

, improvement of public procurement competitiveness, and reduction of corruption. The paper finds that information and … relationship between e-procurement and bureaucratic corruption …