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Corruption in Russia, Russia Corrupted: Is There a Way out?
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2014-6-81-96
Abstract
The article views corruption as an integral feature and the engine of the Russian economy. The main causes of corruption are linked to the nature of Russian privatization, mechanisms of government appointments and carrier growth, the lack of resource control in the process of the execution of economic policies. Corruption is considered to be a multilevel phenomenon, which embraces the process of governmental decision making, functioning of businesses and householders’ performance. Systematic analysis of the dissemination of corruption and successful experiences of other countries allow full scale measures for combating corruption in Russia to be proposed. Special attention is paid to the formation of state, corporate and public anti-corruption institutions.
Keywords
corruption,
Russian economy,
systematic approach,
privatization,
state corruption,
corporate corruption,
anti-corruption institutions
JEL: D73, D02, D23, P2, P47, P51
About the Author
V. Kleiner
Central Economics and Mathematics Institute (CEMI) RAS (Moscow, Russia)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Kleiner V. Corruption in Russia, Russia Corrupted: Is There a Way out? Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2014;(6):81-96. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2014-6-81-96
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