The goal of this paper was to conduct an empirical study on the effects of leadership-corruption on the development of Nigeria. The study is model two theories; the idealistic theory and the anomie theory. The study sought among others: to ascertain the relationship between leadership corruption and development in Nigeria. To assess the extent to which leadership corruption affects service deli...

About the P About the P About the P About the P About the Policy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs olicy Briefs This year the Crawford School of Economics and Government established an exciting series of Policy Briefs that provide three opinion pieces by researchers on a particular theme or topic. These briefs are designed to provide introductions into key public policy areas that a...

While various forms of corruption are common in many health systems around the world, defining wrongdoing in terms of legality and the use of public office for private gain obstructs our understanding of its nature and intractability. To address this, I suggest, we must not only break the silence about the extent of wrongdoing in the health sector, but also talk differe...

Corruption is now a popular topic in the social sciences. This expansion of interest is evident in economics and elsewhere, where a large number of articles on this theme have been published in leading journals. Some organizations publish indicative data on corruption. For example, Transparency International publishes a widely cited ―Corruption Perceptions Index‖ for most countries, and these d...

one of the best ways to encountering administrative corruption is identifying the factors of its emersion, prevalence and control. this paper aims to determine and prioritize those mentioned factors in educational system. research results showed that economic conditions of educational personnel have most important impact on tendency to commit corruption. also, administrative and managerial mech...

Abstract Connecting to rule-makers in order to set favorable rules (lobbying) or paying government executives to bend the current rule (bribing) are the two main strategies for influencing government. This study in an evolutionary game model explain why bribing may become widespread while other states like compliance and cooperative lobbying are Pareto superior. The theoretical model is used ...

Corruption is a worldwide phenomenon, particularly in many developing countries, which contain a large proportion of global biodiversity. Most alarming, from a biodiversity-conservation perspective, is the frequent corruption of government officials who manage valuable natural resources, such as timber, oil and precious minerals. A recent study by Joyotee Smith and colleagues describes rampant ...

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...

The world's health systems are vulnerable to corruption in every country and at every level from central government to patients themselves, according to an encyclopaedic report into corruption released by Transparency International. The Global corruption report 2006 documents corruption on a vast scale in both rich and poor countries, and its enormous cost to public health. Each year hundreds o...