Sentence examples for indicators of corruption from inspiring English sources

"Software, based on even simple learning algorithms, can uncover indicators of corruption invisible to the human eye," says Ottenheimer.

Studies that use national level indicators of corruption fail to note that corruption comes in many forms, at multiple levels, and may or may not affect resource use.

For this reason our 1998, 2003 and 2006 surveys distinguished between voluntary and involuntary contributions; we considered only the involuntary ones as indicators of corruption.

The openness hypothesis, however, cannot be confirmed as the coefficient estimates for this variable behave in opposite direction to the base specifications reported in Table 3, hence demonstrating inconsistency and lack of clarity on the actual impact of alternative trade openness indicators on corruption.

For the remaining indicator ("control of corruption"), the results are borderline.

In the World Justice Project's 2010 Rule of Law index (which only includes 35 countries) rates Argentina 20th out of these 35 countries for the indicator Absence of Corruption, 29th for Open Government, 28th for Regulatory Enforcement, 20th for Access to Civil Justice and 28th for Effective Criminal Justice (out of 10 indicators I though these were the ones most directly related to corruption).

When low-level officials pick the pockets of the poor, it is also often a reliable indicator of greater corruption higher up the bureaucratic and political hierarchy.

The best indicator of Democratic corruption is its slavishness toward the lobby that is to them what the National Rifle Association is to the GOP: the Israel lobby (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and its satellite organizations).

*World governance indicator on control of corruption.

They should also integrate World Bank tools such as the Detailed Implementation Review, a proactive diagnostic tool used by the Bank to evaluate projects for indicators of fraud and corruption using forensic accounting and fraud investigation techniques that assess and detect the risk of fraud and corruption.

That report, made public in January, concluded that over $500m-worth of contracts may have been tainted by "significant indicators of fraud and corruption" such as "collusive behaviours, bid rigging, bribery and manipulated bid prices".