Assessing the effectiveness of the fight against public-sector corruption in Mauritius: Perception v reality

Peerthum, Sheilendra; Gunputh, Rajendra Parsad; Luckho, Takesh

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2020.100419

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“…Combining social data and legal documents. Legal approach fosters to identify legal problem between fact and norm (Peerthum et al, 2020). The label socio-legal studies has gradually become a general term encompassing a group of disciplines that apply a social scientific perspective to the study of law, including the sociology of law, legal anthropology, legal history, psychology and law, the study of judicial political science, and comparative science (Lin et al, 2022).The socio-legal approach is a combination of approaches within the social sciences, including political science, economics, culture, history, anthropology, communication and a number of other sciences, which are combined with approaches known in legal science, such as learning about law, principles, doctrines and statutory hierarchies.…”

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Reduce Corruption in Public Procurement: The Effort Towards Good Governance

Prakasa

Asis

Sahid

2022

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<div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="left"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"><p class="AbstractText">The Corruption Eradication Commission is introducing new laws on corruption. However, the crucial questions are whether the said laws effectively decrease corruption cases, including corruption in public procurement. The number of factors that result in corruption is increasing, especially in the public procurement sector. One of the most important things that can't be ignored is that the public doesn't take part in supervision. This study aims to examine how to reduce corruption in public procurement through an effort towards good governance. The study takes <em>a socio-legal approach. By reviewing some review literature relevant to public procurement corruption, as well as reports by multiple authorities tracking the same subject. </em>This study<em> </em>concludes<em> </em>that<em> public procurement law policies in Indonesia have not worked well. This is one of them, influenced by corrupt law enforcement officials and the irresponsible political elite. As a result, existing legal regulations are not properly implemented.</em></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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Reduce Corruption in Public Procurement: The Effort Towards Good Governance

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Asis

Sahid

2022

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“…This step is essential for improving the state of corruption in public sector agencies (Abdul Rahman et al, 2015). Meanwhile, due to the low opinion on public officials' integrity, Peerthum et al (2020) suggested the need to instill public trust in the issue of corruption and prepare an integrity framework in government organizations to confront corruption.…”

Section: Fraud In Public Sector Employeementioning

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Profiling Fraudsters: Empirical Evidence from The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Website

Ali¹,

Majid²,

Basri³

et al. 2022

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Cases of fraud involving public servants have become public attention since they are entrusted to serve the public and manage the public fund. Corruption incidence among public servants led to a trust deficit and tarnished the image of public sector agencies. Even though public sector agencies in Malaysia including the Malaysian Anti-corruption Commission (MACC) are transparent in disclosing details of offenders via their website to raise public awareness, cases involving fraud among public servants remained entrenched. At the national level, the National Anti-corruption Plan (NACP) 2019-2023 has been introduced in 2019 as part of the Malaysian government's effort to counter corruption since 63.3% of corruption complaints came from the public sector. In addition, Transparency International reported a Corruption Perception Index of 48 for Malaysia in 2021 and ranked 62 out of 180 countries. This indicates that the perceived level of corruption in Malaysia is still high with the government struggling to combat corruption within the public sector. In light of this predicament, this study compiles a profile of fraudsters among the public servants convicted under Malaysian law. This study adopted a qualitative stance using secondary data with a content analysis on real cases disclosed on the MACC website from the year 2019 to 2021. Findings revealed that most of the public servants' offenders are the enforcement officers with bribery cases involving as low as RM20. This study may act as an eye opener to the public on the amount and extend to the fraud committed by public sector employees. Apart from that, it may also assist authorities to plan strategies for mitigating the incidence of fraud among public servants.

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“…Marinković & Šestović (2015)affirms that effective IAF is essential to enhance transparency and accountability at all levels of public sector administration through their independence, methodology and standards. Peerthum, Gunputh, & Luckho (2020) reveals through a mixed method study using 396 completed questionnaires and content analysis for corruption cases investigated and prosecuted to determine corruption typology reflecting the public sector of Mauritius, that corruption level in the country has increased in comparison to previous years with high pessimism on the capability and willingness of the government to fight corruption. The study implies 97% respondents believe that corruption is a huge issue in the country with 98% respondents agreeing that it is present in the public sector, and 65% perceive that corruption will increase in the future.…”

Section: Public Sector Corruptionmentioning

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Fighting Corruption in the Public Sector by Implementation of Effective Internal Audit Function

Rasheed¹,

Jothimuni²

2021

theijbm

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IntroductionAs countries embark on a road to a resilient and inclusive economy, global scandals on corruption have escalated in an unprecedented scale in every continent, from Asia to Africa, Europe and America. The size, magnitude and complexity of operations has increased to a high level, with state administrations observing new methodologies to identify ambiguities and entry points for activities of corruption (The World Bank, 2020). Countries around the world has embarked on numerous forms of reform endeavors such as enhancing financial controls, financial reporting, transparency, accountability and governance in the quest to fight corruption in the public sector. A central component in the reform course is focused on monitoring and control of resources through audit and regulatory disclosures (Paterson, Changwony, & Miller, 2019). Internal audit (IA) is an essential feature in the reform process creating an ethical environment with solid governance controls to mitigate public sector corruption, a long-standing scourge on nation development. This research is focused on the role of effective internal audit function (IAF) in mitigating public sector corruption, challenges and reasons for lack of IAF, adequacy of existing internal control system, risk management processes and governance mechanism and providing recommendations to strengthen IAF in the public sector of Maldives.The public sector of Maldives comprises of 17 ministries and32 State Owned Entities (SOEs) as of 2021 (Ministry of Finance, 2021; The Presidents Office, 2021). Further, city councils, atoll councils and island level councils are elected to facilitate provision of basic necessities and essential services required by all citizens in the nation. This raises significance of public sector integrity and transparency, good governance mechanism and operating effectiveness to mitigate fraud, malpractices and corruption of public funds and resources.The eminence of internal audit has elevated in the world due to increased number of corporate collapses and financial scandals. International Professional Practices Framework (IPPF) of Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) defines internal audit as an independent and objective consulting activity which add value to an organization and strengthen internal control system, effectiveness of risk management processes, and governance mechanism through a systematic and

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Assessing the effectiveness of the fight against public-sector corruption in Mauritius: Perception v reality

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Reduce Corruption in Public Procurement: The Effort Towards Good Governance

Reduce Corruption in Public Procurement: The Effort Towards Good Governance

Profiling Fraudsters: Empirical Evidence from The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission Website

Fighting Corruption in the Public Sector by Implementation of Effective Internal Audit Function

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