During the COVID-19 pandemic, South Africans were shocked by reports about high levels of corruption in procurement personal protective equipment (PPE) trusted government officials. These are evidence break trust social contract between and citizens, a serious indictment to their dignity, safety security. Corruption is glocal problem that impedes service delivery perpetuates poverty, inequality...

In this paper we consider the modern theory of the Bayesian brain from cognitive neurosciences in the light of recommender systems and expose potentials for our community. In particular, we elaborate on noisy user feedback and the thus resulting multicomponent user models, which have indeed a biological origin. In real user experiments we observe the impact of both factors directly in a repeate...

Developing countries often suffer from high corruption, income inequality and poor institutional arrangements that give rise to large shadow economies. Earlier evidence shows economies moderate the negative effects of corruption on in highly unequal South American countries. For Asia, we show persistence raises even if control is strong. Supported by static dynamic panel data analyses 21 Asia b...

Confucianism’s emphasis on filial piety is both a hallmark of its approach to ethics and source concern. Critics charge that piety’s extreme partialism corrupts Chinese society should therefore be expunged from the tradition. Are critics correct? In this article, we outline criticism note persistence over last century. We then evaluate data empirical study corruption see whether they support cl...

Most countries are making significant efforts to combat corruption. International organizations have developed effective recommendations that allowed many states achieve success in the implementation of anti-corruption policies. Using these Russian Government has and implemented methods for combating this social phenomenon. Currently, results obtained from activities declining. Having considere...

The article is devoted to the study of conceptual foundations, theoretical and methodological aspects, as well current directions for improving procedure conducting verifications reliability completeness information on income, expenses, property, compliance with prohibitions restrictions, fulfillment duties established in order combat corruption. authors substantiate relevance significance rese...