African Anti-Corruption Agencies: Challenges and Prospects

Knowledge management in anti-corruption agencies

Corruption and Anti-corruption in China: Challenges and Countermeasures

As in most of the developing countries, corruption is becoming one of the serious challenges in the process China is striding forward to modernization. However, corruption in China is different in nature and extent from that in other nations due to the political structure and reform policy China has implemented. This paper devotes to differentiating typologies of corruption, analyzing the cause...

Anti-Corruption Conventions in Nigeria: Legal and Administrative Challenges

There is a trend in development discourse to understand and explain the level of corruption in Nigeria, its anticorruption crusade and why it is failing, as well as its level of compliance with International standards of United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) & African Union Convention on Converting and Preventing Corruption) to which Nigeria is a signatory. This paper discusses t...

Challenges and Prospects of European Railways

In the present paper, challenges and prospects of the European railways, along with a proposal for a new strategy policy and specific measures are presented. The declining course of European railways concerning traffic and revenues is first analyzed. Conditions to introduce intra - modal competition are surveyed, among them separation of infrastructure fro...

Corruption, the Southern African Development Community Anti-corruption Protocol and the principal—agent—client model

Since the 1990s, a number of anti-corruption conventions have been adopted due to pressure from international financial institutions, donor countries and governments of major industrialised nations. One of these conventions is the Anti-corruption Protocol adopted by the Southern African Development Community. This article examines this Convention against the backdrop of the principal–agent–clie...

Challenges in the Next Stage of Anti - corruption Daniel

It is a Thursday in October 1994, at the Kiev World Bank Resident Office weekly roundtable debate with the media, public officials and civil society. The topic this afternoon in this participatory postSoviet fora is the ever-latent potential for economic reform and recovery. The newly appointed Vice-Premier in charge of the Economy, a reformist, is engaged in a heated discussion on the governme...