This study explores the challenges and benefits of adopting electronic procurement (e-procurement) technologies to facilitate anti-corruption mechanisms, accountability transparency in pharmaceuticals at National Pharmaceutical (NatPharm) Company Zimbabwe. corruption is a serious threat attainment Universal Health Coverage. It imperative for Government Zimbabwe adopt Information Communication T...

BACKGROUND Evaluating the quality of healthcare and patient safety using general population questionnaires is important from research and policy perspective. Using a special wave of the Eurobarometer survey, we analysed the general population's perception of health care quality and patient safety in a cross-country setting. METHODS We used ordered probit, ordinary least squares and probit ana...

We present a study of the effects of disk and memory corruption on file system data integrity. Our analysis focuses on Sun’s ZFS, a modern commercial offering with numerous reliability mechanisms. Through careful and thorough fault injection, we show that ZFS is robust to a wide range of disk faults. We further demonstrate that ZFS is less resilient to memory corruption, which can lead to corru...

a r t i c l e i n f o This paper analyses how the quality of governance, the size of public spending, and economic development affect the relationship between bureaucratic corruption and economic growth. The analysis shows that the interaction between corruption and governance shapes the efficiency of public spending, which in turn, determines the growth effects of corruption. Specifically, cor...

Literature abounds to show that the current anti-corruption strategies have failed to fight corruption because of neglect of ethics in these strategies, despite its importance. The purpose of this paper is to make a contribution to anti-corruption theory by developing a model that clarifies many complex ethical dilemmas around corruption. To develop a conceptual model, the extant literatures on...

This study furthers our understanding of how corruption affects the decision-making process of allocating foreign direct investment (FDI). Drawing on the responses of 28 managers in charge of establishing operations in a highly corrupt host country, we argue that those firms based in home countries with low levels of corruption are more proactive in preparing to face corruption abroad than thos...

Corruption is an important economic variable but one that is extremely difficult to measure. As a result, researchers have resorted to using perception indexes as a proxy for true corruption. Recent studies suggest that perception measures are inaccurate, and have encouraged the use of methodologies that can measure fact-based corruption – corruption that actually takes place. In this paper, we...