incidence of corruption is another distinctive feature of SSA. According to the last Transparency International Corruption … Perception Index almost 70% of SSA countries ranked register score below 3, indicating that corruption is perceived as rampant …. However, to the best of our knowledge the corruption and informality nexus has never been explored in comprehensive empirical …

This article analyzes individual perceptions of the linkage between corruption and trust in political institutions in … 16 African democracies. Using perceived corruption and experienced corruption as indicators, it tests the functionalist … theories that portray corruption as a way to increase trust in political institutions by compensating for their …

; the “need for the State”, particularly of the poorest; the extent of petty corruption; the reliability of expert surveys …

Competition is often presented as a good way to fight against corruption. However, no theoretical or empirical study … allows us to conclude that an increase in competition reduces corruption. This article uses surveys of more than 10,000 firms … in 80 countries to analyse the links between corruption and inter-firm competition. Our results show that it is not the …

democracy and the fight against corruption on trade. We use a gravity model inspired and adapted from Anderson and van Wincoop … corruption on trade for all countries. Our results show that democratic countries are generally more open, but that two … democratic nations do not necessarily trade more between each other. The reverse is true for corruption. …

This study examines the limits of global corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. It draws on a wave of … of over 35,000 people and uses experience-based questions to measure petty bureaucratic corruption. The second (Mirror …

The emergence of institutions, governance and especially corruption as major development considerations has generated a … corruption indicators based on experts’ perceptions. The study draws on a wave of original surveys coordinated by the authors and … corruption and its characteristics. The second type (mirror survey) reports on 350 experts’ opinions on the matter. A comparison …