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Often the watch-dog authorities themselves have been implicated thus paradoxically encouraging a mistrustful mindset towards the legitimacy of sanctions-leading to a vicious and spiralling cycle of corruption. For example, in Brazil, the state-owned company Petrobras was implicated in a major corruption...
in 1998 Brazil’s Federal Government implemented, under the leadership of then Minister of Health, Jose Serra, the Banco de Preços em Saúde (BPS). The BPS was to be used as a transparency measure to facilitate the centralization of pricing information, and to decrease the high cost of me...
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The tax base is computed as the rental value of the building, scaled by a nationwide multiplier, and net of deductions that can be set by both the national and local government. Although statutory tax rates are relatively small, the tax burden of property taxes is quite large, given that ...
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Hacking attacks may corrupt software systems or compromise sensitive government networks. Data leaksLarge-scale data breaches can impact a range of personally identifiable information, such as medical records or banking details. Military or industrial sabotageDirect attacks on a country’s national ...
government in a country could lead to a reduction in opportunistic behavior and, consequently, could reduce the earnings management practices in firms. Thus, by using a government index proposed by the previous literature we will test if those countries that control corruption have a stronger rule ...