Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo

Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo

Corruption is no doubt endemic in every society. Its prevalence and longevity is a matter of concern and for its damaging public and social consequences undermines the development capacities of nations and distorts priorities. However, reports, incidents of corruption cases and discourse have conce...

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Main Authors: Ojo, Ademola Eyitope, Ojo, Ayowale Collins
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Research Management Institute (RMI) 2012
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Crimes and offenses
Online Access:http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13105/
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spelling uitm-131052016-06-30T08:16:07Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13105/ Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo Ojo, Ademola Eyitope Ojo, Ayowale Collins Crimes and offenses Corruption is no doubt endemic in every society. Its prevalence and longevity is a matter of concern and for its damaging public and social consequences undermines the development capacities of nations and distorts priorities. However, reports, incidents of corruption cases and discourse have concentrated on poor developing nations as presumed den of the corrupts. Hence, this paper comparatively reviewed data obtained from World Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International) for the year of2010, 2008, 2006 and 2004. The paper reveals that while poor nations are ranked higher in corruption indices, considerable numbers of rich developed nations are not exempted from corruption, particularly the G8 member nations. It is concluded that the earlier concept of corruption being peculiar amongst developing poor nations is evidentially overtaking by emerging consensus that corruption is a serious global epidemic. Thus it is recommended that national governments and international organizations must examine the roles of both the internal and external actors across nations to intensify policy measures and reforms to curb corruption between and within poor and rich nations. Research Management Institute (RMI) 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13105/1/AJ_ADEMOLA%20EYITOPE%20OJO%20SMRJ%2012%201.pdf Ojo, Ademola Eyitope and Ojo, Ayowale Collins (2012) Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo. Social and Management Research Journal, 9 (2). pp. 25-39. ISSN 1675-7017
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Ojo, Ademola Eyitope
Ojo, Ayowale Collins
Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
description Corruption is no doubt endemic in every society. Its prevalence and longevity is a matter of concern and for its damaging public and social consequences undermines the development capacities of nations and distorts priorities. However, reports, incidents of corruption cases and discourse have concentrated on poor developing nations as presumed den of the corrupts. Hence, this paper comparatively reviewed data obtained from World Corruption Perception Index (Transparency International) for the year of2010, 2008, 2006 and 2004. The paper reveals that while poor nations are ranked higher in corruption indices, considerable numbers of rich developed nations are not exempted from corruption, particularly the G8 member nations. It is concluded that the earlier concept of corruption being peculiar amongst developing poor nations is evidentially overtaking by emerging consensus that corruption is a serious global epidemic. Thus it is recommended that national governments and international organizations must examine the roles of both the internal and external actors across nations to intensify policy measures and reforms to curb corruption between and within poor and rich nations.
format Article
author Ojo, Ademola Eyitope
Ojo, Ayowale Collins
author_facet Ojo, Ademola Eyitope
Ojo, Ayowale Collins
author_sort Ojo, Ademola Eyitope
title Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
title_short Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
title_full Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
title_fullStr Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
title_full_unstemmed Corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / Ademola Eyitope Ojo and Ayowale Collins Ojo
title_sort corruption in poor and rich nations : a comparative review / ademola eyitope ojo and ayowale collins ojo
publisher Research Management Institute (RMI)
publishDate 2012
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13105/
http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/13105/1/AJ_ADEMOLA%20EYITOPE%20OJO%20SMRJ%2012%201.pdf
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