Papava indexes of tax corruption

Corruption as a social phenomenon has existed for a long time. The fight against corruption takes on a special importance, however, when the scale of corruptive practices approaches the point where we face an actual “globalization of corruption ” (Elliot (ed.), 1997). It is indeed telling when the complexity and hazardous nature of this threat prompts the President of the World Bank to lable it a "cancer of corruption " (Mauro, 1997 (B), pp. 1, 3). The Collins Dictionary of Sociology defines corruption as the refusal on the part of governmental officials to accept expected standards of behavior because of their personal wellbeing (Jerry, Jerry, 1999, p. 322). In relevant economic literature one can find discussions on the nature, factors,