Economic analysis of financial and administrative corruption ranking Egypt and Libya in the Corruption Perceptions Index.

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Faculty of Law - Mansoura University

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"Financial and administrative corruption" is legally defined as: "The behavior of a public servant, which deviates from agreed standards, to achieve special goals and objectives." Some legal jurists have defined it as: "a departure from law and order, or exploitation of their absence, with the aim of achieving personal interests, related to the political, economic or social authority of the individual or a particular group." Economically, the World Bank defined the concept of "financial and administrative corruption" as: "abuse of public office to obtain private gain." The International Monetary Fund (IMF) defines financial and administrative corruption, according to the IMF report (in its 1996 report), as: "the abuse of public power, for private gain, achieved when a public official accepts, requests, renews or extorts a bribe." The Bureau for Development Policy defined it as: "the abuse of public power, office, or power for private benefit, whether through bribery or extortion, independence of influence, nepotism, fraud, gratuities to expedite services, or through embezzlement." We also find that Transparency International has defined this corruption as: "Misuse of public power, in order to achieve profit or private benefit, so it is an act against the public office, which is supposed to be the object of public trust. We note here that the "First Report of the Transparency and Integrity Committee" in Egypt (2007) adopted a concept of corruption in line with the concept of the Transparency Organization.  It is: {abuse of power, associated with a particular position, with the aim of achieving personal interests, at the expense of public interests}. Egypt's 2014 National Anti-Corruption Strategy clarified that the definition of transparency is the most accepted at the global level.

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