Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2000
Source Publication
Crime, Law and Social Change. Volume 32, Number 2 (2000), p. 115-146.
Keywords
Corruption
Abstract
This paper is intended as a critical response to the emerging consensus within both academic and policy literatures that we are currently facing an epidemic of corruption which threatens to undermine the stability of economic and political development on both a national and global scale, and which requires both immediate and wide-ranging policy interventions. Based on a review of the publications and policy statements of the leading anti-corruption crusaders — namely the OECD, the IMF, and the World Bank — it will be argued that the recent concern with corruption is attributable, not to any substantive increase incorrupt practices, but rather, to the re-framing of corruption in light of broader shifts and transformations within the global economy.
Repository Citation
Beare, Margaret E., and James Williams. "The Business of Bribery: Globalization, Economic Liberalization, and the ‘Problem’ of Corruption." Crime, Law and Social Change 32.2 (2000): 115-146.
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