TITLE

Bureaucratic corruption in Africa: The futility of cleanups

AUTHOR(S)
Mbaku, John Mukum
PUB. DATE
March 1996
SOURCE
CATO Journal;Spring/Summer96, Vol. 16 Issue 1, p99
SOURCE TYPE
Academic Journal
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on bureaucratic corruption cleanup strategies in Africa, and seeks to show why they have been ineffective. Attempts of bureaucrats in Africa to increase their level of compensation; Concept of corruption; Causes bureaucratic corruption in Africa; Traditional strategies for corruption cleanup.
ACCESSION #
9701140181

Tags: POLITICAL corruption

 

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