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

The cost of official corruption is high: it degrades public trust, impedes economic development, and undermines the … corruption cases and restore funds to public use. Successful application of bankruptcy or insolvency law can make or break a … corruption case.Going for Broke: Insolvency Tools to Support Cross-Border Asset Recovery in Corruption Cases is intended as a …

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 …

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 …

simple way to combat corruption. However, empirical evidence on the corruption and regulation nexus is limited. Further, the … corruption indices used are based on experts' opinions, which may suffer from perception bias. The present paper attempts to … analysis finds a large, positive effect of regulatory burden on corruption. For the baseline results, the bribery rate is …

behavior affects two main sectors where corruption is rampant: taxation and government contracts. The paper shows that … corruption in tax administration tends to be mainly a demand-side phenomenon. Paying a bribe requested by a public official is … suggest, on the contrary, that corruption is a supply-side phenomenon, with bribe transactions generally initiated by firms to …

Africa, requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service …

corruption compared to PFM reforms associated with more transparency.The last chapter looks at the relationship between PEFA … fragile or not.The report also explores the relationship between perceptions of corruption and PFM performance. It finds … strong evidence of a relationship between better PFM performance and improvements in perceptions of corruption. It also finds …