Customs face a difficult tradeoff between, on one side, collecting tariff revenues and preventing smuggling, the other avoiding creating additional barriers to trade. They also tend concentrate discretionary power in hands of officials whose decisions can bear high costs for firms, room rent extraction. In this context, information technologies limit direct interactions, reduce transaction allo...

The present study adds a further link to the chain of studies on corruption and capital flows. It is argued here that not only does corruption reduce foreign direct investment inflows to a country, but also different forms of corruption have separately identifiable effects on the variable in question. Using data from Global Competitiveness report of the World Economic Forum, it is manifested in...

This article discusses the relationship between economic development and one aspect of property rights, a statute of limitations defining time limits on ownership claims. The analysis centers on property rights in land. This article argues that the available development opportunities shape the time limits on ownership claims that maximize property values, which in turn creates an inherent under...

I briefly review some of the micro and macro theory of corruption and relate it to various socio-economic and political variables. To quantify the burden of corruption I use Harrison and Vinod's (1992) 95% confidence interval for the marginal excess burden (MEB) of taxation. In developing countries, one dollar of corruption is estimated to impose a burden of $1.67, which becomes very large when...

The paper examines the relationship between corruption and gender in institutions of local government in India, using a Logit model. Recent debates about women’s participation in electoral politics suggest that the presence of more women in government will engender public policy, and also tends to reduce corruption. The evidence we examined indicates that gender is not a significant factor in e...

This study aims to assess and analyze the Culture of Corruption Politicians' Behavior in Parliament State Official During Reform Government Indonesia (Genealogical Study) is genealogical research based on literature, journals reporting publications Indonesian corruption culture. The result concluded that culture behavior politicians parliament bureaucracy reform era still ongoing can be said as...

Purpose – The present paper seeks to examine the recent changes in public management in Malaysia in relation to new public management and assess their impacts on administrative performance and service delivery. Design/methodology/approach – The scope of the paper is limited to the period of 1981 till the present date. The paper is mainly based on secondary sources of information, and it uses a ...

I would like to refer to the recent article analyzing foreign postdoctoral training of 70 Croatian fellows (1). I applaud the author’s willingness to tackle this extremely complex and sensitive issue from different aspects, as well as his effort to maintain objectiveness. However, his presentation has two apparent shortcomings. First, although the author states correctly that half of the traine...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors influencing the adoption of the online public grievance redressal system (OPGRS) in the Indian context. This e-government initiative is based on the government’s long term strategic policy that aims to reform and overhaul the Indian bureaucracy. The model developed is based on the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) and ...