0 illegal, bad, or dishonest behaviour, especially by people in positions of power: --
Political corruption is widespread throughout the country.
The film is about a young police officer and his struggle to expose corruption in the force.
1 in language, a word whose original form has been changed: --
2 the fact of information on a computer being changed so that it is wrong and cannot be used: --
data corruption
3 dishonest or illegal behaviour involving a person in a position of power, for example, accepting money for doing something illegal or immoral: --
He was a member of the team looking into allegations of corruption in the local government building-works department.
4 the fact of information on a computer being damaged in some way and not able to be used: --
data corruption
The economic reform index, log of price level, corruption index, and the war dummy are the intermediate variables.
A number of cross-national studies include corruption in their analysis.
A potentially more serious problem is that changes in perceptions of corruption may lag reality, if they have anything to do with reality at all.
Given the obvious difficulties in measuring corruption, any one source may be highly inaccurate.
Corruption can be widespread at the local government level, even if it is controlled effectively at the central government level.
In other words, the various models explain roughly 78 to 86 per cent of the variance in corruption across the cases analysed here.
The answer appears to lie, at least in part, in the popular perception of rampant official corruption in that country.
We supplement this with an additional analysis of a second dataset on corruption measured during the late 1980s.
