Sand or grease? Corruption-institutional trust nexus in post-Soviet countries

Foreword: "Institutional corruption" defined.

Corruption in Developing Countries

Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists’ ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency consequences of corruption, and what det...

Ex ante and ex post institutional convergence: Case of the post-Soviet space

The paper discusses the interaction of ex ante and ex post institutional convergence in the post-Soviet world, i.e. 12 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. It starts with analysing empirical evidence for institutional convergence in the CIS, and then considers two channels of convergence: institutional competition for mobile capital and ex ante harmonization via interaction in pol...

Approaches to Corruption in the Developing Countries

This article mainly seeks to provide a framework to help us reach a better understanding of the nature, causes and grounds of increasing administrative corruption in developing countries. In this regard, the author identifies six approaches to administrative corruption and surveys issues related to the rise of corruption within these context. These approaches include cost-benefit, relative depr...

Hymenoplasty: Benefit or Corruption

Hymenoplasty is a surgery that doctors perform to repair girl `s virginity who lost it through virginal intercourse or other accidents. During their practice, doctors may face demands that do not have a therapeutic effect and are derived from the cultural and customary considerations of society. Given the fact that the doctor should also consider the patient's greatest benefit in such cases and...