Crafting anti-corruption agencies’ bureaucratic reputation: an uphill battle

African Anti-Corruption Agencies: Challenges and Prospects

Corruption has become an issue of major political and economic relevance in recent years. This has led to a resurgence of interest in analyzing the phenomenon and the diverse forms that it assumes in developing politics with an expectation that democratization and economic liberation offer potential routes to dealing with the problem. Anti-corruption strategies range from institutional reforms ...

Knowledge management in anti-corruption agencies

Aspects of bureaucratic corruption

This review attempts to identify treatments of corruption that draw upon characteristics of underdevelopment either as causes or as consequences. It focuses on three aspects of corruption in developing economies: red tape, rent-seeking, and the abundance of intermediaries. Red tape is presented as arising from differences in abilityto-pay and willingness-to-pay, which is a consequence of incomp...

Encouraging learning how to fish: an uphill but worthwhile battle.

INTRODUCTION Encouraging teaching practices such as problem-based learning (PBL) amongst undergraduate students within a lecture-based, system-based integrated curriculum is a challenge. Students are apprehensive about developing an organised framework for acquiring knowledge while lecturers are required to reframe their views on the educational process and their role as educators. MATERIALS ...

Game-theoretic recommendations: some progress in an uphill battle

Game theory has become the central language for the analysis of multi-agent systems. Moreover, the central gametheoretic solution concept, the Nash equilibrium, has become a standard tool for that analysis. A game is a general way for representation of interactions among agents: each agent has strategies he can choose from, and each tuple of strategies, one for each agent, determines a payoff f...