Journal of Economic Perspectives—Volume 19‚ Number 3—Summer 2005—Pages 19 – 42 Eight Questions about Corruption Jakob Svensson S ome years ago I interviewed the chief executive officer of a successful Thai manufacturing firm as part of a pilot survey project. While trying to figure out a good way to quantify the firm’s experience with government regulations and corruption in the foreign trade sector‚ the CEO exclaimed: “I hope to be reborn as a custom official.” When a well-paid CEO wishes
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EFFECT OF MACRO ECONOMIC POLICY ON NIGERIAN ECONOMICS GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT ABSTRACT This research work focus on the appraisal of Macroeconomic Policy on Inflation in Nigerian Economy‚ also to determine how it enhances the growth of Nigerian Economy. The aim of this research work is to look into challenges and numbers of hypothesis were drawn. Information necessary to address the test of hypothesis was gathered through secondary data‚ source from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Economic analysis was
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Evidence in Development: Does Fair Trade support development? Fair Trade is a charitable organisation that was founded in 1992 in order to promote sustainable production whilst fulfilling the farmer’s full potential in a fair and ethical way. Fair Trade have become a successful and well-known brand in a relatively short space of time‚ with Fair Trade products being sold in more than 125 countries and UK figures on Fair Trade sales reaching £1.5 billion in 2012.(Fair Trade ) Part of the reason
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Protecting Sensitive Labels in Social Network Data Anonymization ABSTRACT: Privacy is one of the major concerns when publishing or sharing social network data for social science research and business analysis. Recently‚ researchers have developed privacy models similar to k-anonymity to prevent node reidentification through structure information. However‚ even when these privacy models are enforced‚ an attacker may still be able to infer one’s private information if a group of nodes largely share
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MANILA‚ Philippines—The Philippines is still perceived as one of the most corrupt countries in the world‚ getting a score of 34 on a scale of 1 to 100 with 100 being very clean‚ according to the latest Corruption Perceptions Index of Transparency International. But the Philippines has at least outranked its neighbors Vietnam‚ Indonesia and Bangladesh‚ which all fared better than the country in the previous CPI‚ said TI‚ a civil society organization that promotes transparency and accountability.
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platitudes to the outside world. Corruption In philosophical‚ theological‚ or moral discussions‚ corruption is spiritual or moral impurity or deviation from an ideal. Corruption may include many activities including bribery and embezzlement. Government‚ or ’political’‚ corruption occurs when an office-holder or other governmental employee acts in an official capacity for his or her own personal gain. This article deals with the commonplace use of the term corruption to mean dishonest or fraudulent
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innovations and adoption of supervisory and prudential requirements that conform to international standards. It is widely believed that savings and investment must go hand in hand for sustained economic growth. The challenges solutions and prospects for the development growth and progress of the banking industry in Nigeria can be analyzed from eight dimensions. Political environment: The political instability in our country especially every electioneering year (1993‚ 1999‚ 2003‚ 2007 and 2011) contributed
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topic— “Corruption-greatest obstacle for the growth and development of our country.” Corruption is the abuse of entrusted power for private gain‚ is the single greatest obstacle to economic and social development around the world. Political corruption is the use of legislated powers by government officials for illegitimate private gain. Misuse of government power for other purposes‚ such as repression of political opponents and police brutality‚ is not considered political corruption. An illegal
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Nigeria‚ a country in West Africa‚ was one of the leading producers of palm oil‚ cocoa‚ and groundnuts‚ that had the potential of becoming a powerful nation. However‚ in 1885‚ European powers‚ such as Portugal‚ France‚ Britain‚ Germany‚ Spain‚ Italy‚ and Belgium‚ gathered all together at the Berlin Conference‚ deciding on which African colony they were each going to take over. This was the beginning of New Imperialism. During the Scramble for Africa‚ many African regions were colonized by European
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The history of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria The first two HIV cases in Nigeria were identified in 1985 and were reported at an international AIDS conference in 19866. In 1987 the Nigerian health sector established the National AIDS Advisory Committee‚ which was shortly followed by the establishment of the National Expert Advisory Committee on AIDS (NEACA). At first the Nigerian government was slow to respond to the increasing rates of HIV transmission7 and it was only in 1991 that the Federal Ministry
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