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Corruption as a World-wide Problem

Yezabeth Cuevas

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Corruption as a World-wide Problem

Svensson, J. (2005). Eight questions about corruption. Journal of economic perspectives, 19(3), 19-42.

Svensson Jakob through this paper will discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption. These questions offer responses that define corruption, state the countries that are the most corrupt, offers the common characteristics of countries with high corruption, explains the magnitude of corruption in such countries and the manner in which higher wages for bureaucrats cause corruption, discusses whether competition reduces corruption, explains why there have been so few (recent) successful attempts to fight corruption, and how corruption adversely affects growth in the affected countries.

This paper is useful because it provides a broad look at corruption in various countries across the world and in the most recent times.

Tanzi, V., & Davoodi, H. (1998). Corruption, public investment, and growth. In The welfare state, public investment, and growth (pp. 41-60). Springer, Tokyo.

Through this paper, one gets to understand the inferior public infrastructure created by corruption. This includes many aspects such as corrupt systems allocating public contracts to unworthy contractors, embezzlement of funds meat for infrastructural development, and the influence of political leaders on investment projects for monetary reasons. A country with poor infrastructure, in areas such as transport and communication, is one that is on its collapsing trajectory.

Through the paper, we get to understand that corruption reduces investment and economic growth, and where there is more corruption, the less the investment and economic growth.

Levi, M., & Nelken, D. (1996). The corruption of politics and the politics of corruption. Blackwell.

This one gives the link between corruption and politics. Corruption is a virtue that raises serious political questions. These questions concern the relationship between the state and the society, wealth and power, and the impact of corruption on political regimes.

This literature is one that enables a person to comprehend the dynamics of corruption and politics which is much of the time true.

Montinola, Gabriella R. & Jackman, Robert W. (2002). British journal of political science.

Source of corruption: a cross-country study (pp. 147-170).

This journal examines data about the different levels of corruption for a broad cross-section of countries and it also adds analysis confirming that political competition affects the different levels of corruption. It was able to confirm that membership of the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries does affect corruption and that corruption exists more in low-income countries that tend to underpay employees from the public sector.

This journal focuses on cross-country data and it actually questions if there is less corruption on more democratic countries. This is a very interesting article.

Taylor & Francis (2014). Journal of global ethics. (pp.231-237). Samuel Kimeu.

The Journal of Global Ethics provide a vast amount of information about corruption, how it negatively impacts the economy and also the efforts to fight corruption. It focuses on the challenges faced, the role the private sector plays in corruption, and it also elaborates on how corruption affects the economy and the way of life of the people.

This article is a great source as it focuses in more recent events and what is being done against corruption and what is being done for accountability.

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