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Speaking at a function in the S K Memorial College in Nawada he said corruption is so much rampant in the higher education in Bihar that the college and university teachers had to pay bribe for seeking promotion, transfer and other benefits.

Using the 2007 household survey data collected by Transparency International Bangladesh, we examine corruption in the education sector in Bangladesh. Our main findings are (i) the incidence of corruption and the amount of bribe increase with the...

Social norms can reduce the costs of corrupt behavior and push a society toward a high-corruption equilibrium, but what determines individual attitudes toward corruption? How does acceptance vary across different types of corrupt behavior? An...

We study non-collusive corruption in the education sector. For this purpose, we construct a simple theoretical model that captures non-collusive corruption between service providers (teachers) and service demanders (students). The model shows that...

The topics covered in the study include school admissions, teacher appointments, transfers and promotions, activities of school development societies (SDS), fees and payments, tuition classes and abuse of the district quota system. A representative...

Education in Central Eurasia has become one of the services most affected by corruption. Corruption in academia, including bribery, extortion, embezzlement, nepotism, fraud, cheating, and plagiarism, is reflected in the region's media and addressed...

Corruption was symptomatic of business and government interactions in Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union before and during the economic transition of the 1990s. Corruption is difficult to quantify, but the perception of corruption...

In this book, Transparency International's (TI) world-renowned 'corruption perception index' (CPI) and 'bribery perception index' (BPI) are explained and examined by a number of experts. They set out to establish how reliable these indexes are in...

Recent surveys suggest that leakage of funds from ministries of education to schools represent more than 80 per cent of the total sums allocated for non salary expenditures in some countries; bribes and payoffs in teacher recruitment and promotion...

Numerous empirical studies demonstrate that corruption reduces investment and/or slows growth. But how robust are these relationships? In this paper, this question is answered through a series of cross-country regression tests using four different...