Assessing Priorities of Transparency During COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

Almada, Maria Paula; Aggio, Camilo; Amorim, Paula; Santos, Nina; Pinho, Maria Dominguez Costa

doi:10.1007/s11115-022-00642-9

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“…He highlighted how corrupt individuals exploited weak oversight and lack of transparency during the pandemic to embezzle funds, depriving those in need of essential aid. In a study by Almada et al (2022), the authors examined South Africa's Special Investigating Unit's handling of corruption cases related to the procurement of personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 crisis. The total amount involved was 8 billion rand, with over 700 companies implicated.…”

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Using the Baidu Index to Understand the Public Online Interest Towards Moral Education in Mainland China

Zhao,

Yao,

2024

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Objective: This article primarily aims to clarify the spatiotemporal characteristics of public attention to "moral education". Method: It uses the Baidu Index as a research tool to collect data on netizens' interest in moral education and uses this data as material for analysis. from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2023. Results and Conclusion: Temporally, from 2013 to 2023, the concern for "moral education" showed a wave-like trend of rising and falling. "Socialist core values," "Three Views," and "faith" were the most popular related information among the public. Spatially, the geographical distribution of the group concerned with "moral education" generally spread from the eastern coastal areas to the central and western regions over the years, showing a spreading trend. The geographical concentration index showed a trend of dispersion-concentration-dispersion. In terms of population structure, females were the majority. The age group with the most attention was 40-49 years old netizens.

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Using the Baidu Index to Understand the Public Online Interest Towards Moral Education in Mainland China

Zhao,

Yao,

2024

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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Risk of Corruption

Silverio-Murillo,

Prudencio,

Balmori-de-la-Miyar

2024

Public Organiz Rev

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This paper estimates the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on risk of corruption in Mexico. To calculate the pandemic’s impact on risk of corruption, this study uses monthly administrative data of 378,000 public acquisitions through 64 institutions from the Mexican Federal Government during the 2018–2020 period. These institutions account for approximately 75% of all allocations of public acquisitions made by the Mexican Federal Government. The risk of corruption is measured through the Discrete-Contracts-Value-to-Budget (DCVB) ratio, which represents the ratio of the value of contracts assigned through discretionary non-competitive mechanisms to the total value of contracts per institution. The empirical strategy consists of a difference-in-differences methodology and an event-study design. The analysis is conducted over all institutions as well as by healthcare and non-healthcare institutions. The results show the following: (1) the pandemic increased the DCVB ratio by 17%; (2) the DCVB ratio increased during six months and then it returned to pre-pandemic levels (inverted U-shape form); and (3) surprisingly, the rise in the risk of corruption is mainly driven by non-healthcare institutions. From a policy perspective, Mexico’s Government Accountability Office, although counterintuitive, should focus on non-healthcare institutions when conducting audits targeting public acquisitions made during the pandemic, even though much of the political debate remains centered around the risk of corruption in healthcare institutions.

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Assessing Priorities of Transparency During COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil

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Using the Baidu Index to Understand the Public Online Interest Towards Moral Education in Mainland China

Using the Baidu Index to Understand the Public Online Interest Towards Moral Education in Mainland China

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Risk of Corruption

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