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2 results foundAuthor: Transparency International Title: Daily Lives and Corruption: Public Opinion in South Asia Summary: South Asians regularly have to pay bribes when dealing with their public institutions, be it to speed up paperwork, avoid problems with authorities such as the police, or simply access basic services. A new survey of six South Asian countries published today by Transparency International, the anti-corruption organisation, found that more than one in three people who deal with public services said they pay bribes. In previous surveys of this nature, only Sub-Saharan Africa had a higher rate of bribe-paying. The report, Daily Lives and Corruption, Public Opinion in South Asia, surveyed 7500 people between 2010 and 2011 in Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The results help explain why the region is perceived to have some of the world’s highest levels of corruption, with none of the surveyed countries in the top half of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, in which they all score less than 3.5 out of 10. Political parties and the police are the most corrupt institutions in all six countries according to the survey, followed closely by the parliament and public officials. Officials entrusted to oversee deals related to buying, selling, inheriting and renting land were the next likely to demand a bribe. Details: Berlin: Transparency International, 2011. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 5, 2012 at: http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2011/2011_12_22_south_asia_corruption_plagues_daily_life Year: 2011 Country: Asia URL: http://www.transparency.org/news_room/latest_news/press_releases/2011/2011_12_22_south_asia_corruption_plagues_daily_life Shelf Number: 124846 Keywords: BriberyCorruption (South Asia)Public Opinion Surveys |
Author: Kar, Saibal Title: Corruption, Shadow Economy and Income Inequality: Evidence from Asia Summary: A number of recent studies for Latin America show that as the size of the informal economy grows, corruption is less harmful to inequality. We investigate if this relationship is equally compelling for developing countries in Asia where corruption, inequality and shadow economies are considerably large. We use Panel Least Square and Fixed Effects Models for Asia to find that both ‘Corruption Perception Index’ and ‘ICRG’ index are sensitive to a number of important macroeconomic variables. We find that in the absence of the shadow economy, corruption increases inequality. However, with larger shadow economies in South Asia, the income inequality tends to fall. Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2012. 31p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper No. 7106: Accessed January 29, 2013 at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp7106.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Asia URL: http://ftp.iza.org/dp7106.pdf Shelf Number: 127415 Keywords: Corruption (South Asia)InequalityShadow Economy |