The paper focuses on ‘Sociological perspectives in the novels of Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger (2008) and Last Man Tower (2011)’. In his novels, he paints a realistic image modern India. He portrays social issues concerning poverty, corruption, dishonesty, degradation values present society. India’s scenes are depicted as dark side our life which reveals corruption taking place both government pr...

Corruption represents one of the major causes of poverty all over the world and European Union is fighting against it. In the last few years, the corruption phenomenon registered a high level in some European countries and became one of the most problematic factors for doing business, due to the evolution of the perceived top five global risks: interstate conflict and regional consequences, ext...

The South African society continues to stagger under an immense wave of corruption in both the private and the public sectors. Corruption is the misuse of public office or a position of authority for private, material or social gain at the expense of other people. The aim of this investigation is to discuss the phenomenon from a moral point of view and to suggest moral directives and ways that ...

There is much to be gleaned from novels concerning the links between wealth and power, inequality and corruption, poverty and illness. A student of social epidemiology will profit as much from close reading of these classics as from consulting textbooks on social stratification.

There is a trend in development discourse to understand and explain the level of corruption in Nigeria, its anticorruption crusade and why it is failing, as well as its level of compliance with International standards of United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) & African Union Convention on Converting and Preventing Corruption) to which Nigeria is a signatory. This paper discusses t...

This work is a foundational research, aimed at drawing the attention of computer scientists to poverty eradication as a serious global concern. It provides requisite system conceptualizations for more vigorous actions against poverty through the application of computing. In it, the researcher attempts to build a framework for the emergence of a new computing frontier tagged "Poverty Eradic...