Petty and grand corruption and the conflict dynamics in Northern Uganda

Expanding Research on Corporate Corruption, Management, and Organizations

“…The multimillionaire minister of an oil-rich country who steals millions of dollars from the public to buy houses around the world he does not really need, represents a dramatically different kind of corruption from the lowly paid police officer of the same country who pretends your car light is broken and asks for a trivial, by Western standards, bribe to help feed his family, because his salary is not enough. This distinction has been discussed in the relevant literature as "grand" and "petty" corruption (Nystrand, 2014), and it clearly illustrates the difference that context makes. We cannot assume it away, if we want to understand and prevent corrupt activities from taking place.…”

“…This distinction has been discussed in the relevant literature as "grand" and "petty" corruption (Nystrand, 2014) and it clearly illustrates the difference that context makes. We cannot assume it away, if we want to understand and prevent corrupt activities from taking place.…”

Managing (out) corruption in NGOs: A case study from the Bangladesh delta

“…The study describes a well-organised, entrenched syndicate running what amounts to a parallel bureaucratic structure (Le, 2012), with Albanese (2014) describing such a structure as akin to a government structure, with a formal central head, and set substructure, this parallel universe of crime having rules mimicking the rules of the host. Nystrand (2014) would distinguish the minutiae of the operations of the syndicate as petty corruption from ‘grand corruption’ but only the scale is different. Zyglidopoulos et al (2017) argue that corruption needs to be understood in context, and in the context of Bangladesh, a taka has the local power of the dollar, even though the dollar is ‘worth’ on the exchange markets 50 or more times as much.…”

Public service delivery in Uganda: a reconsideration of grand corruption

“…Corruption in public organisations of Uganda occurs both at central government level and at local government level. A study by Nystrand (2014:827) reveals that central government corruption is linked to disbursement of funds meant for different programmes and projects while local government corruption occurs through a number of transactions made between the local business community and local leaders. The local level corruption is perceived, by citizens, to be normal and acceptable since it is used to facilitate transactions between the public and the local government.…”

“…This is followed by increased number of street children in every town, increased number of commercial sex workers in every trading centre, increased number of mafias and increased cases of child kidnap and murder for ransom (Muldoon et al 2017). In addition, due to rampant corruption, there is lack of tangible benefits from rural development projects such as Youth Livelihood Program (YLP), Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme (YES) and Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), high cost of living and hence a low standard of living, high cost of energy and telephone network, too large external debt and internal debt, and high interest rates (Nystrand, 2014). These are accompanied by environmental degradation due to loss in non-renewable resources, high government expenditure, high taxation both direct and indirect, unstable macroeconomic climate, limited specialisation and exchange, and shortage of savings to finance development (Kahangirwe, 2011).…”