The thesis contributes to the understanding of the influence of corruption on paths of sustainable development. At different stages, the study shows how corruption hinders economic growth and diminishes the stringency of environmental protection – two fundamental components of sustainable development. Furthermore, the study includes the related issue of the determinants of corruption levels. Ch...

Numerous investigations demonstrate that the problem of corruption in the health sector is enormous and has grave negative consequences for patients. Nevertheless, the problem of corruption in health systems is far from eminent in the international health policy debate. Hutchinson, Balabanova, and McKee have identifed in their Editorial five reasons why the health policy community has been relu...

Political Science. This paper benefited greatly from comments from Geof Wood and discussions with J. Allister McGregor at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath and later with Eric Worby in Bangladesh. It began life as a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), but the views represented here are those of the author alone. Summary This paper bri...

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...

Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). Where it does not exist, pliant prosecutors, judges, and court staff may ignore criminal acts of corruption or have them improperly dismissed. Biased appointments, promotions, and disciplinary processes mean that justice sector staff may be ill-equipped to handle complex cases, including those involving corruption. The UNCAC's unique provisions for...

We argue that two problems weaken the claims of those who link corruption and the exploitation of natural resources. The first is conceptual and the second is methodological. Studies that use national-level indicators of corruption fail to note that corruption comes in many forms, at multiple levels, that may affect resource use quite differently: negatively, positively, or not at all. Without ...

The purpose of this research paper is to investigate whether there exist alterative methods ofexamining the widespread nature of corruption in Russia. According to Transparency International’s most recently published Corruption Perceptions Index 2012, Russia ranks 133 out of 176 countries and territories, indicating that Russia’s public sector is perceived to be a corrupt as those of the Comoro...

Using Transparency International’s ratings of firm disclosures on anticorruption efforts, we find that disclosures are related to firms’ country and industry exposures to corruption, and to enforcement and monitoring variables. We then examine whether firms’ residual anticorruption disclosures are related to subsequent allegations of corruption and subsequent performance. Firms with abnormally ...