This thesis examines the factors that influence perceptions of judicial corruption. A statistical analysis using data from such sources as Transparency International, the World Bank, and Freedom House demonstrates that aspects of accountability (the ability to remove judges) and transparency (freedom of the press) are only weakly related to perceptions of judicial corruption. A systematic count...

Corruption in public administration is a cause for continuing concern, particularly in the developing world. Although optimism regarding the ability of e-government to reduce or eliminate corruption is widespread, neutral impact assessment reports however continue to expose cases where corruption persists even after the introduction of e-government. Clearly, there is a need for strengthening re...

Non-collusive corruption, i.e., corruption that imposes an additional burden on business activity, is particularly widespread in low-income countries. We build a macroeconomic model with credit market imperfections and heterogeneous agents to explore the roots and consequences of this type of corruption. We find that credit market imperfections, by generating rents for the incumbent entrepreneu...

Corruption has been widespread, it is increasingly systematic, inducing losses to the national economy. Article 2 paragraph (2) of Law Number 31 1999 concerning Eradication Criminal Acts Corruption, death penalty can be imposed under certain conditions, but so far there no corruptor sentenced death. This study discussed issues related with corruption, including: first, how urgency applied corru...

Why is corruption—the misuse of public office for private gain— perceived to be more widespread in some countries than others? Different theories associate this with particular historical and cultural traditions, levels of economic development, political institutions, and government policies. This article analyzes several indexes of “perceived corruption” compiled from business risk surveys for...

In just a few months in early 1997, Mexico fired its top drug-enforcement official for accepting bribes and ultimately closed the agency because it was so ridden with corruption; Ukraine’s president once again declared war on corruption; Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng lamented that his country was losing ground in its war on corruption; President Kim Young Sam deplored endemic corruption in Sou...

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper provides a systematic evaluation of the e ect of corruption on growth, using metaanalysis techniques for 460 estimates from 41 studies. We nd that publication bias, albeit acute, does not dissipate the genuine and negative e ect of corruption on growth. Among the main factors explaining the variation in the estimated effec...

Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the hottest topics in both of the industrialized world and information research world. In our daily life, we deal with the most related systems, which were Financial Information Systems (FIS). These systems have closely linked with all aspects of administrative organizations. As a result of this link, the KM has contributed in developing FIS as attempts to ha...

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate whether there exist alterative methods ofexamining the widespread nature of corruption in Russia. According to Transparency International’s most recently published Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Russia ranks 133 out of 176 countries and territories, indicating that Russia’s public sector is perceived to be a corrupt as those of the Comoro...