Determining The Causes of Corruption In Public Procurement In Ghana
Keywords:
Public Procurement, Corruption, Types, Causes, GhanaAbstract
Corruption in public procurement has become endemic and not until the causes and types of this pandemic are identified, it would be very difficult to fight it. The rate of corruption in public procurement for the past five years has been on the increase and little action has been taken by government to restrain it. The paper discusses the types and causes of corruption in public procurement. The paper aims at identifying the major causes of corruption and the most prevalent types of corruption in public procurement. A questionnaire survey was conducted to solicit the causes and types of corruption from professionals and contractors. The field survey included 112 respondents made up of 52 professionals, 30 building contractors and 30 road contractors from the Central and Greater Accra Regions. The relative importance of the causes and their ranks revealed that greed and weaknesses in institutional structures, and failure to implement and enforce policies and laws are the most important causes of corruption in public procurement. The rankings of the types of corruption also revealed systematic corruption as the most widespread type of corruption.
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