There has been slow progress with finding practical solutions to health systems corruption, a topic that has long languished in policy-makers “too difficult tray.” Efforts to achieve universal health coverage (UHC) provide a new imperative for addressing the long-standing problem of corruption in health systems making fighting corruption at all levels and in all its for...

In this paper, we consider the problem of malicious and intended corruption of data in a database, acting outside of the scope of the database management system. Although detecting an attacker who changes a set of database values at the disk level is a simple task (achievable by attaching signatures to each block of data), a more sophisticated attacker may corrupt the data by replacing the curr...

Most scientific inquiries start with a fact, and the study of corruption is no exception. Early work on the topic, mainly by political scientists, found the facts in a mixture of historical accounts, anecdotes, case studies and basic comparative analysis. With few exceptions, however, economists avoided corruption as a subject until Mauro (1995) introduced cross-country data in his study of the...

Corruption, as a research topic, because of its very nature, tends not to be explicitly discussed. Further, empirically it is not easy to get “data” on, as respondents rarely discuss this topic, and neither would it be discussed in formal reports and presentations. It is thus elusive but still permeates widely and arguably significantly shapes the trajectories of ICT projects in developing coun...

Data corruption is one of the key problems that is on top of the radar screen of most CIOs. Continuous Data Protection (CDP) technologies help enterprises deal with data corruption by maintaining multiple versions of data and facilitating recovery by allowing an administrator restore to an earlier clean version of data. The aim of the recovery process after data corruption is to quickly travers...

Corruption, as a research topic, because of its very nature, tends not to be explicitly discussed. Further, empirically it is not easy to get “data” on, as respondents rarely discuss this topic, and neither would it be discussed in formal reports and presentations. It is thus elusive but still permeates widely and arguably significantly shapes the trajectories of ICT projects in developing coun...

The same globalisation of markets and developmental inequalities that have helped draw renewed attention to problems of corruption in recent years also confront us with the dilemma of cross-border corruption. Crossborder corruption involving international interests, actors, capital and economic processes (both licit and illicit) is a potentially serious problem in affluent and developing countr...

Recent work has shown how denoising and contractive autoencoders implicitly capture the structure of the data-generating density, in the case where the corruption noise is Gaussian, the reconstruction error is the squared error, and the data is continuous-valued. This has led to various proposals for sampling from this implicitly learned density function, using Langevin and Metropolis-Hastings ...