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Corruption, Good Governance and Economic Development: Contemporary Analysis and Case Studies

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Corruption in Bangladesh: Review and Analysis M. A. B. Siddique* UWA Business School

Abstract Corruption is understood by the majority to be harmful to a country although the reason why is rarely understood. For this reason, economists have endeavored to determine the causes and consequences of corruption. Corruption is an important issue for Bangladesh since it is widely spread throughout the country and can lead to many unwanted consequences. Li et al. (2000) found that corruption, for example, can lead to misallocation of resources. Once bribing becomes an integrated part of the market, it will no longer be equal to bidding for scarce resources. They also found that corruption can be harmful to innovation; entrepreneurs have to get licenses and permits to start up new businesses and are often subjected to corruption. This is a consequence of corruption that could be detrimental to Bangladesh’s growth. The quality of goods may also be adversely affected, with decisions about the issuing of permits and licenses being determined by the largest bribe paid rather than the highest quality of goods (Lambsdorff, 2007). This chapter is divided into 4 parts: Part I discusses the concept and various quantitative measures of corruption. As far as this author is aware the PRS Group was the first to score countries based on corruption. Since then a multitude of indices have been produced by * I wish to thank Rebecca Doran-Wu, UWA Business School, for her excellent research assistance in writing this chapter. 85

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Chapter 12 Conclusion: Good Governance and Sustainable Development

9min
pages 276-281

Table 11.2 The four most corrupt institutions in Indonesia

38min
pages 250-273

Table 11.1 Corruption remains a problem: Indonesia’s CPI records

3min
pages 248-249

Table 10.9 Logistic regression of the likelihood of compensation

9min
pages 225-233

Chapter 11 Does Governance Reform in a Democratic Transition Country Reduce the Risk of Corruption? Evidence from Indonesia

22min
pages 234-247

Table 10.8 Logistic regression of the likelihood of fines and subsidiary of fines

4min
pages 221-224

Table 10.7 Logistic regressions of the likelihood of imprisonment

8min
pages 215-220

Chapter 10 A Certain Uncertainty; Assessment of Court Decisions in Tackling Corruption in Indonesia

6min
pages 184-187

in Indonesia

37min
pages 188-212

Chapter 9 Comparative Crime and Corruption in Different Indian States in the Context of Economic Development

32min
pages 158-183

Figure 8.6 Number of cases disposed of by the Commission

1min
page 152

Figure 8.2 Crime, corruption and economic growth

4min
pages 148-150

Figure 8.1 Crime and corruption cases 2003–2007

5min
pages 143-147

Chapter 7 Restoring Sustainable Governance in Bangladesh

36min
pages 118-139

Table 6.2 Ranking of top six corrupt countries based on Corruption Perception Index: 2001–2010

6min
pages 108-111

Chapter 8 Crime, Corruption and Economic Growth — A Study in Indian Perspective

4min
pages 140-142

Figure 6.1 Comparison of Bangladesh’s CPI score and GDP per capita (2001–2009

7min
pages 112-117

Table 6.1 Percentile rank of Bangladesh (2010

1min
page 107

Chapter 6 Corruption in Bangladesh: Review and Analysis

8min
pages 102-106

Chapter 5 Governance, Institutions and Corruption: Negative Sovereignty in Africa

38min
pages 80-101

Chapter 4 Deliberative Democracy, Global Green Information System and Spirituality

21min
pages 64-77

Table 3.1 Descriptive statistics for the Release of Information Index, 1960–2005

1min
page 47

Table 3.5 Regression analysis with economic growth as dependent variable

9min
pages 57-63

constraints, 2005

6min
pages 52-55

Table 3.3 Comparison of selected countries, Release of Information scores and GDP per capita, 2005

1min
page 50

Chapter 3 Using the Release of Information as an Indicator of Government Transparency

8min
pages 42-46

Table 2.7 Some popular measures of corruption (2009

1min
pages 40-41

Table 2.1 CPI ranking of selected countries in 2010 Prepared by Transparency International

2min
pages 30-31

Table 2.5 ICRG corruption score (2011

1min
page 38

Table 2.2 Countries most affected by Bribery: GCB 2010

3min
pages 32-33

Chapter 1 Introduction

9min
pages 20-25

Table 2.6 Opacity index rank (2009

1min
page 39

Table 2.3 Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2008

2min
pages 34-35

Chapter 2 Some Quantitative Measures of Corruption

7min
pages 26-29

Table 2.4 The World Bank’s Control of Corruption Index (CCI

2min
pages 36-37
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