Trust, honesty and corruption: reflection on the state-building process

Building Trust Between Patients and Physicians

Repairing and enhancing patient wellbeing are considered the most significant goals in the health sector. It is observed that a trustful relationship between physicians and other medical team members on one side and the patients and their families on the other side is really important to achieve the fundamental purposes in the “Art of Medicine”....

The transition of corruption: From poverty to honesty

Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain the cross-country pattern of corruption just as well as do actual incomes. This result demonstrates that the long-run causality is entirely from income to corruption. Hence, there is a Corrupt...

Building Trust Between Patients and Physicians

Repairing and enhancing patient wellbeing are considered the most significant goals in the health sector. It is observed that a trustful relationship between physicians and other medical team members on one side and the patients and their families on the other side is really important to achieve the fundamental purposes in the “Art of Medicine”....

Honesty, Competence, and Trust for Systems Design

We briefly present three problems related to promiscuous trust in connection to germane notions of honesty and competence in systems design.

Building Trust and Commitment in the Buyer-seller Adaptation Process