participation have a statistically significant association with corruption, and whether corruption is highly correlated with lower … corruption. Moreover, district-level data are used to test the relationship between corruption and quality of public services … accountability is associated with a lower level of corruption, and that corruption is negatively associated with public service …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that the analysis of corruption must distinguish between corruption in … organizations where this kind of behaviour is widespread and corruption in organizations where it is rare, and must also distinguish … between corruption as the outcome of an economic cost-benefit analysis and corruption induced by social-psychological factors …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effects of corruption on investment and growth in 15 Middle East … (ICRG) corruption index and conducted a panel cointegration analysis and Granger causality procedure to detect the dynamic … relationships between the variables. Results indicate that corruption is a serious hurdle to economic growth in MENA countries since …

tend to generalise the types of organisational fraud. Conceptually, organisational fraud may include corruption, double … diversities. Consequently, many occupational fraud cases become unstoppable, particularly corruption. To deal with this topical …, consisting of corruption, asset misappropriation and fraudulent financial statement. Design/methodology/approach This study …

Purpose – While corruption has long been recognized as a destructive social problem, the subject has not yet been given … paper is to explore and discuss corruption practices inherent in public procurement of infrastructural projects in Ghana … with the aim of identifying corruption related challenges that must be addressed in order to actualize the expected …

Act provides a mechanism to receive complaints and inquire into the allegations of corruption or willful misuse of power … sector will fade away. The need of exhaustive and complete law is also necessary so that the evils like corruption can be …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corruption on the size of the shadow economy in … manifestation of corruption might be associated with country characteristics and that different types of corruption might have … countries to show that geographical location of a country impacts on the relationship between corruption and the shadow economy …

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to unveil the relationship between corruption and economic growth in Bangladesh … positive relation between corruption and growth. This relationship has been significant since 1977 when Bangladesh embarked on … confronted public regulatory bodies for utilities and permits, and indulged in increasing corruption. Thus, both corruption and …

Purpose – Are there different determinants in the fight against corruption across African countries? Why are some … countries more effective at battling corruption than others? To assess these concerns this paper aims to examine the … determinants of corruption control throughout the conditional distribution of the fight against corruption using panel data from 46 …

Purpose This paper investigates the corruption-growth relationship in a sample of 146 countries for the period – 1984 …-2009. While negative effects of corruption on growth have drawn economists’ interest in recent years, our main contribution is to … moments. Findings The results challenge some of the findings that negative growth-corruption association in the literature but …