Samuel Siebie Ankamah, S M Manzoor E Khoda
Summary “Political will” is oft‐cited as the major obstacle to government's anti‐corruption efforts. Notwithstanding, there is remarkably little systematic analysis of the concept, with some scholars describing it as the “slipperiest concept in the policy lexicon,” whereas others are calling for its...
Mia Mahmudur Rahim, Shawkat Alam
Biru Paksha Paul
Purpose The purpose of the paper is to unveil the relationship between corruption and economic growth in Bangladesh. Design/methodology/approach The paper is designed to combine both theory and empirical work. Findings Bangladesh poses a positive relation between corruption and growth. This relation...
Hough, Dan
Corruption and anti-corruption are now mainstream public policy challenges. Politicians and the public alike now discuss corruption with the type of rhetoric that they never did before. Perhaps surprisingly, however there remains little detailed, cross-national analysis of which anti-corruption stra...
Shabbir Ahmed, Mansoor Mushtaq, Mochammad Fahlevi, Mohammed Aljuaid et al.
It is frequently asserted that high levels of economic growth are supported by economic freedom. For the period 1995-2021, this study examines the influence of the composed economic freedom index and several subcomponents of economic freedom on the economic growth of four South Asian economies, name...
Habib Zafarullah, Redwanur Rahman
Purpose This paper aims to assess state capacity in Bangladesh and to analyse the reasons for the apparent failure of public agencies in creating the conditions for and in enhancing sound governance in the country. Conflicts between political parties and the government's lack of clear policy goals h...
Md Rashid, Abdullah Al Mamun, Hajar Roudaki, Qaiser Rafique Yasser
Purpose –The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on corporate fraud as well as financial crime and the prevention approaches used in different contexts. It also aims to find suitable approaches that have effectively been applied to prevent fraud. In addition, this paper at...
Benjamin K. Sovacool
The World Bank remains the largest international financial institution in the world. This case study examines the effectiveness of the World Bank’s Inspection Panel. The Inspection Panel makes it possible for citizens and communities to challenge World Bank projects through an independently administ...
Kamal Siddiqui
Eleanor Hutchinson, Nahitun Naher, Pallavi Roy, Martin McKee et al.
In 2008, Vian reported an increasing interest in understanding how corruption affects healthcare outcomes and asked what could be done to combat corruption in the health sector. Eleven years later, corruption is seen as a heterogeneous mix of activity, extensive and expensive in terms of loss of pro...
Waqas Mehmood, Sajid Mohy Ul Din, Attia Aman‐Ullah, Ali Burhan Khan et al.
The current study investigates the relationship between institutional quality and economic growth, focusing on South‐Asian countries entailing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, from 2002 to 2018. The data are analysed using the dynamic heterogeneous panel (panel autoregressi...
Ferdous Arfina Osman
Abstract Despite the restoration of parliamentary democracy in Bangladesh since 1991, political governance of the country is still mired by innumerable ills. It broadly features a wide array of confrontation, competition, monopolization of state institutions and resources by the party in power. This...
Abdus Sobhan
Abstract Manuscript Type Empirical. Research Question/Issue How do conflicting institutional logics predict and explain the overstatement of corporate governance compliance in a developing country? Research Findings/Insights A unique opportunity to study overstatement of compliance is available thro...
Jung‐Yeop Woo, Uk Heo
There have been debates on how political corruption may affect foreign direct investment (FDI) attractiveness. Some scholars argue that corruption increases economic uncertainty due to arbitrariness and thereby affects FDI negatively. On the other hand, another group of scholars contends that corrup...
John Adams, Frank Raymond
In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi economist, won the Nobel Peace Prize. Yunus’s key innovation was to create loan circles, usually of five women, who used social suasion to ensure high repayment rates and sustain their creditworthiness. This institutional structure helps resolve a number of inf...