Variable: Law: corruption is criminalized as a specific offense

QoG Code: (aii_q10)


Dataset: Africa Integrity Indicators

Description:

Sub-score (0-100). Question no. 10. In law, corruption is criminalized as a specific offense.

A 100 score is earned where a national law criminalizes corruption as a specific offence(s) for at least three of the following: extortion, offering a bribe, accepting a bribe, kickbacks, using public resources for private gain, using confidential state information for private gain, money laundering, conspiring or attempting to commit any of the above, organized crime and trafficking.
A 0 score is earned where no such law exists, or a law exists but it alludes to corruption in general terms without criminalizing specific offences.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-05
Last updated by source: 2024-05-28


Categories:

Quality of Government


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Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 53


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This variable has information from the year 2013 to the year 2017