The approach to corruption in law and development: towards a rights-based perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Matthew, Ayibakuro Noah (2017). The approach to corruption in law and development: towards a rights-based perspective in Sub-Saharan Africa. University of Birmingham. Ph.D.

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Abstract

Using the various moments of ideological change in the law and development movement as an analytical framework, this thesis examines the indifference to corruption in international development in the period preceding the 1990s, and the attributes, challenges and prospects of the current global anticorruption agenda in sub-
Saharan Africa. With Nigeria as a case study, the research finds that the approach to corruption has been overwhelmingly influenced by the respective predominant global development ideology during each moment, whilst ignoring local experiences and efforts to address corruption. Hence, despite the heightened attention to the issue in the last couple of decades, anticorruption reforms have failed to enhance pre-existing efforts to deal with corruption in countries.

The thesis concludes that the currently evolving paradigm of a rights-based approach to anticorruption demonstrates a promising response to some of the shortcomings of this approach to corruption over the years. However, the nature of its conception and proposals for its implementation reaffirms the entrenched nature of these
shortcomings and their inherence in the overall strategy of law and development reforms in countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Thesis (Doctorates > Ph.D.)

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Doctorates > Ph.D.

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