An appraisal of the use of social criteria in public procurement in Nigeria

TO Akenroye - Journal of public procurement, 2013 - emerald.com
Socially responsible procurement is increasingly attracting public attention, but little is
known about the use of social requirements in public procurement process in developing …

Citizen-driven approaches for combating public procurement corruption in Uganda's local government systems: an empirical survey

BC Basheka, PN Oluka… - International Journal of …, 2015 - inderscienceonline.com
Corruption in public procurement has been a menace to the innocent poor citizens through
denial of better services. While many good legislation and institutional frameworks have …

Anticorruption reforms, tax evasion, and the role of harassment

DS Banerjee, S Vaidya - Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the impact of anticorruption reforms on tax evasion when corruption and
potentially harassment are endemic among tax auditors. We find that the threat of …

Extractive bribe and default in subsidized credit programs

B Saha, T Thampy - Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2006 - Elsevier
We present a dynamic model of subsidized credit provision to examine how asymmetric
information exacerbates inefficiency caused by corruption. If a borrower and a corrupt official …

Tax distortions, household production, and black-market work

J Strand - European Journal of Political Economy, 2005 - Elsevier
This paper studies an economy with high-and low-productivity households. Household
services are produced either by households themselves or are purchased in a white or black …

Corruption, harassment and evasion in tax collection

N Kumar - Indian Economic Review, 2008 - JSTOR
The phenomenon of tax evasion is a universal problem especially prevalent in transition
economies. What is the compliance/evasion decision of the taxpayers in presence of …

Harassment, corruption and tax policy: reply

S Marjit, V Mukherjee, A Mukherjee - European Journal of Political …, 2003 - Elsevier
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Corruption and Foreign Direct Investment: Empirical Investigation of Asian Developing Economies

MA Soharwardi, R Sadiq - NICE Research Journal, 2020 - nicerjss.com
Developing economies have different cultural and economic characteristics, but they often
experience similar levels of corruption. At one side developing economies are facing the …

Does it matter who extorts? Extortion by competent and incompetent enforcers

A Samuel, A Mishra - Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper offers a novel explanation for extortion, which is the practice of demanding
payments from compliant agents by law‐enforcement officers. Namely, that extortion occurs …

Corruption and Optimal Enforcement

A Mishra - The Political Economy of Corruption, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
We consider two forms of corruption–collusion and extortion–and examine their impact in
the context of a common enforcement problem. Collusion, where the citizen or firm and the …