CORRUPTION - A Very Short Introduction

Leslie Holmes

OXFORD

2015

143 páginas

4h 46m

ISBN-13: 9780199689699

Since the mind-1990s corruption has been increasingly recognized as a global problem. Covering a vast range of activities, from global trafficking and terrorism, to bribery and nepotism, corruption is a major perpetrator of economic inequality in both developing and developed countries.

In this 'Very Short Introduction' Leslie Holmes considers corruption the difficulties of defining corruption in different cultural contexts, and the issues with arise when assessing its scale and nature. Offering a key discussion on the environmental, economic, social political and international ramifications of corruption, Holmes concludes by providing insight into possible remedies to this global problem.