Public Sector Anti-Corruption Policies: A Thematic Analysis

A Statistical Analysis of Public Sector Corruption and Economic Growth

This study reports on the results of a statistical analysis in which the relationship between the independent variable of corruption, as measured by the World Bank, and the dependent variable of economic growth, as measured by percentage of GDP growth per year, was examined. The purpose of this study is to apply empirical methods to the debate on corruption and growth, in which neoclassical the...

Anti-corruption policies: Lessons from the lab

Controlling Organized Crime and Corruption in the Public Sector

Organized crime and corruption are shaped by the lack of strength of the control mechanisms of the State and civil society. The results presented in the present article attest to the links between the growth of organized crime and that of corruption in the public sector in a large number of countries. The two types of complex crime reinforce each other. To identify and isolate the influential f...

Anti-corruption in the Health Sector: Reducing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in User Fee Systems

This case-based brief illustrates how one hospital was able to introduce policy and system changes to reduce corruption and increase responsible stewardship of user fee revenues for the public good. Although typically user fees generate no more than 5-10% of recurrent costs in health facilities1, these small, continuously occurring cash transactions provide a temptation to collection staff, as ...

Effects Of Public Sector Corruption On The Private Sector : Investigating The Market Value Of Political Connections

This paper exploits public announcements of corruption allegations amongst Nigerian political figures to estimate the impact of political connections on firm value. Specifically, I draw results from market reactions to 27 events to determine whether politically connected firms suffer more from financial malpractice amongst government officials. This paper finds heterogeneous impacts of corrupti...