Social Accountability and Legal Empowerment Initiatives: Improving the Health of Underserved Roma Communities in Eastern Europe by Marek Szilvasi, Maja Saitovic-Jovanovic

“…While these initiatives have led to the elimination of some harmful health practices (such as illegal cash bribes and violent and abusive treatment by medical professionals) and to improvements in health care, and some Roma communities have become driving forces for local and national health system reforms for advancing the fulfillment of health rights, the health inequalities affecting Roma communities remain significant. …”
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Roberto Armijo, un poète salvadorien à Paris : « Inicié entonces un insólito aullido que desde hacía años no se oía en el Barrio Latino » by Dante Barrientos Tecún

“…C’est à l’intérieur de ces deux axes que se dessine et s’explique l’image qu’il présente de Paris. Construite par bribes – au moyen de vers épars tout au long de la poésie qu’il écrit en Europe – et marquée par son engagement avec la Révolution centraméricaine, cette image n’est plus tout à fait celle de la “Ville Lumière” véhiculée par ses aînés Darío, Gómez Carrillo, Asturias ou Cardoza y Aragón.…”
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Corruption pressure on business revisited: Bribery incidence in European countries by Jelena Budak, Edo Rajh, Sunčana Slijepčević, Matea Maloča

“…Conclusion: There is a relationship between the share of retail and wholesale trade and public companies in an economy and bribery incidence experienced by the entire business sector indicating that there might be a spillover effect of bribing in one sector on the rest of the companies.…”
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Corrupting Ecologically Unequal Exchange? India and Forest Loss in a Cross-National Perspective by Jamie M. Sommer, Michael Restivo, John M. Shandra

“…In this regard, the authors hypothesize that corruption creates an “institutional context” whereby bribes, kickbacks, and embezzlement by government officials translate into the prioritization of consumptive practices in the short term rather than advocating for long-term investments such as conservation. …”
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Manipulation of results at sport competitions-criminal liability for the criminal offence of fraud by Matko Pajčić, Lucija Sokanović

“…The other criminal acts which are usually linked to game-fixing in sporting competitions ( offering and accepting bribes, collusion, illegal possession, abuse of position and power and so on) will be considered in more detail in another paper.…”
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STRATEGI PAIKEM TIPE CERAMAH PLUS DAN HASIL BELAJAR SISWA PADA MATA PELAJARAN AL-QUR’AN-HADITS DI MADRASAH IBTIDAIYAH MA’HAD ISLAMI PALEMBANG by Elhefni Elhefni, Ahmad Syarifuddin

“… The pretest result of an experimental group in al-Qur’an-Hadits subject on Tajwid material before PAIKEM strategy type lecturing plus (lecturing, singing, memorizing, and bribing) was implemented at Madrash Ibtidaiyah (MI) Ma’had Islami Palembang was at fair category or there were 20 students (71%) from 28 students that were taken as a sample. …”
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A study on the path of governance in health insurance fraud considering moral hazard by Jusheng Liu, Yuan Wang, Jiali Yu

“…To delve into the mechanisms of health insurance fraud between doctors and patients, this study employed evolutionary game theory to construct a model that comprehensively considers moral hazard, fraud cost, reward, punishment, bribes from patients, and other factors. Through theoretical analysis and numerical simulation of the model, the study discovered that the evolution of governance behavior in health insurance fraud is closely linked to its initial construction of the payment matrix and the initial selection of parameters for the payment matrix. …”
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Ulysse dans la culture italienne. Voyage multiforme à travers le temps by Brigitte Urbani

“…Après avoir effectué une rapide reconstitution de la très vaste légende d’Ulysse telle que la présentent par bribes les nombreuses sources antiques, grecques et latines, cet article entend brosser un parcours à travers les différentes réécritures dont Ulysse a été l’objet en Italie, depuis les romans de Troie médiévaux jusqu’aux dernières années du XXe siècle. …”
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Of Fear and Fright: Reminiscences from the Bangladesh Sundarbans in Colonel Ershad’s Time by Harald Tambs-Lyche

“…For those who had a little land, there was the danger that rich neighbours would dispossess them by bribing the village accountant to change the title to the land. …”
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The evolution of corruption and its current state – A case study on Romania by Ciprian ROTARU, Raluca GEORGESCU, Dumitru-Alexandru BODISLAV

“…No corruption would occur without the participation of companies, banks and governments which feeds and facilitate corruption through their actions. Companies pay bribes, neglect or refuses to disclose payments creating an environment conducive to misappropriation. …”
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Combining top-down and bottom-up accountability by Serra, D

“…We compare “public officials” tendency to ask for bribes under: 1) no monitoring; 2) conventional top-down auditing, and 3) an accountability system that gives citizens the possibility to report corrupt officials, knowing that reports lead to formal punishment with some low probability (the same as in 2). …”

War and natural resource exploitation by Van der Ploeg, R, Rohner, D

“…Some of these political distortions can be overcome by bribing rebels or by government investment in weapons. …”

WTO accession and tariff evasion by Javorcik, B, Narciso, G

“…If customs officials enjoy discretion with respect to assessing the import price, they may assist importers with tariff evasion in exchange for bribes. Removing such discretion limits their ability to facilitate misrepresentation of import prices. …”

<i>Ne</i><i>Podmazhesh</i><i> - </i><i>Ne</i><i>Poedesh</i><i>: </i> Lexical Representation of Bribery Topic in Russian Languge by A. V. Shchetinina

“…It is noted that the semantic field center is the ideogram “the custom of taking bribes”; its key lexical represent is the noun bribery . …”
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Urgensi Perluasan Pertanggungjawaban Pidana Korporasi Sebagai Manifestasi Pengejawantahan Konstitusi by Timbo Mangaranap Sirait

“…Based on the analysis conducted, it was found that Indonesia can only prosecute receiver of bribery (gratification) whilst the bribing corporation is prosecuted in the United States, it is also concluded that it is urgent to expand and amend the criminal law on responsibility for corporate crime as the manifestation of constitution in the Indonesian criminal law in order to counterbalance USA Anti-bribery Foreign Corrupt Practies Act (FCPA)…”
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Problems Faced by Online Gemstone Traders of NamakMandi market at Pakistani Airports by Syed Owais, Arshad khan Bangash, Javaria Raza

“…In the face of the absence of relevant laws and regulations, the employees of the customs department at the airport resort to extortions and bribes both during the exportation and importation of gemstones in Pakistan. …”
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THE REFORM OF THE RULES OF PROCEDURE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF «QATARGATE» by Olga Yu. Potemkina

“… The article focuses on the proposals for the European Parliament’s reform against the background of a corruption scandal called «Qatargate» due to bribes by MEPs and attempts to influence EU policy towards Qatar during preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. …”
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ACTIVITY OF THE PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE BODIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PROSECUTION OF PHYSICAL AND JURIDICAL PERSONS FOR CORRUPTION LAW BREACHES by S. K. Iliy

“…Objective: to analyze the problems of identifying and impleading the persons guilty of corruptive administrative offenses and the role of theProsecutor’s Office in this activity.Methods: formal logical method, systemic method, comparative legal, statistical.Results: the author proposes to include a special chapter in the Russian Administrative Code on corruptive administrative offences, and to provide for the possibility of exemption from administrative liability of legal persons, who actively contributed to the disclosure and (or) investigation of crime, or when there has been extortion of bribes from officials, or if a legal person after the crime voluntary informed on bribery to the body entitled to institute criminal proceedings. …”
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Rent-striking the REIT: Reflections on tenant organizing against financialized rental housing in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada by Emily Power, Bjarke Skærlund Risager

“…We break up this financialized landlord’s ‘repositioning’ strategy into five predatory tactics: cutting, squeezing, greening, rent increasing, and bullying and bribing. Second, we reflect on the experiences, successes, and failures of HTSN. …”
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Libel or Not? The War of Words between Lajos Kossuth and New York Editor James Watson Webb by Kenneth Nyirady

“…During his visit to New York, Kossuth hinted that the Austrians might have bribed a certain New York editor to publish falsehoods about the Hungarian War of Independence. …”
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