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A Trio of Perspectives on Corruption: Bias, Speed Money and “Grand Theft Infrastructure”
Drawing upon the freshly expanded World Bank’s Enterprise Survey (ES), Kenny, Klein and Sztajerowska present an original paper examining three themes: corruption measurement pitfalls, corruption as efficient grease, and corruption in infrastructure. The Enterprise Survey now covers 125 countries and provides interesting insights, depicting an alternative picture from Transparency Internaional’s CPI or the World Bank’s Doing Business data – the latter portraying a de jure description of firm's environment, focusing on the institutional background.
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Procurement Issues in Malaysia
In the paper, "Procurement issues in Malaysia", which has recently been published in the International Journal of Public Sector Management, the authors offer new insight into stakeholder perceptions of the public procurement system of Malaysia. The study is based on 250 focus-group interviews with contractors and 18 semi-structured interviews with procurement officers. With interviews conducted over a nine-month period in 2007, research findings suggest cronyism and irregular procurement processes continue to pose a challenge for Malaysian industry.
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Robert J. Hanlon
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Nov 16, 2011 12:00 AM
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Local Government, Political Corruption, Procurement, Asia Pacific, Access to Information, Audit, Whistleblowing, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction
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'Performing' Bribery in China - Guanxi-Practice, Corruption with a Human Face
This article analyses the entangled relationship between corruption and the so-called guanxi-practice, which is a form of reciprocal conduct that is ubiquitous in China. Unlike most current academic studies on corruption in China which focus on the theme of how the political, economic and social environments have caused corruption at the macro-level, this paper takes a micro-view. It concentrates on how corruption, notably bribery, takes place between a briber and the bribed and challenges the conventional view on the causal relationship between bribery and guanxi-practice.
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Ling Li
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Nov 04, 2011 01:00 AM
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Corporate Governance, Judiciary, Local Government, Political Corruption, Procurement, Transition Countries, Global, Asia Pacific, Anti-Corruption Education, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Single Country Analysis, Private Sector (General), Construction, Real Estate
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Where the Bribes Are Paid - Interactive Database
This interactive database compiles decades of data on violations and penalties under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the U.S. flagship legislation that makes bribery of foreign officials a crime. Since its inception, prosecutors have penalized over 200 companies under the FCPA in about 80 countries, amassing about $4 billion in penalties. The database, called Where the Bribes are Paid , allows users to see how the total penalties amassed in each country break down by sector.
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2011 Bribe Payers Index
The Bribe Payers Index is a unique tool capturing the supply side of international bribery, specifically focussing on bribes paid by the private sector. The 2011 Bribe Payers Index is the fifth edition of the index, ranking 28 of the world’s largest economies according to the likelihood of firms from these countries to bribe when doing business abroad. It is based on the results of Transparency International’s 2011 Bribe Payers Survey. This asked 3,016 senior business executives in 30 countries around the world for their perceptions of the likelihood of companies, from countries they have business dealings with, to engage in bribery when doing business in the executive’s country. A sectoral ranking is also available which scores and ranks 19 sectors. The survey asked how often three different types of bribery were perceived to occur in each sector: firstly, bribery of low-ranking public officials; secondly, improper contributions to high-ranking politicians to achieve influence; and thirdly, bribery between private companies.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Nov 24, 2011 12:40 PM
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Global, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Health, Construction, Defence, Extractives, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Forestry, Energy
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2011 Ibrahim Index of African Governance
the Ibrahim Index is the most comprehensive collection of quantitative data that provides an annual assessment of governance performance in every African country. It compiles 86 indicators grouped into 14 sub-categories and four overarching categories to measure the effective delivery of public goods and services to African citizens. Topics covered by the index include: Rule of law, accountability, personal safety, participation, gender, human rights, public management, infrastructure, education and health.
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Farzana Nawaz
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Nov 08, 2011 03:42 PM
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Civil Society, Elections, Environment, Gender, Human Rights, Judiciary, Organised Crime, Political Corruption, Public Financial Management, Security, Service Delivery, Africa, Middle East and North Africa, Anti-Corruption Institutions, Anti-Corruption Laws, Empirical Data Analysis, Qualitative Analysis, Private Sector (General), Education, Health, Construction
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