International records / OpenAlex research

Deregulation and Corruption in Nigeria: An Ethical Response

It has been widely accepted that one of the reasons for the efficient operation of capitalist economy, is deregulation and privatization. The discourse here centers on the ethical dimension of the level of corruption in Nigeria vis-à-vis deregulation. The question that looms large here is whether it is only the economy that has been deregulated or has corruption also been deregulated? This paper opines that the endemic problem that has bedeviled Nigeria over time, i.e. corruption both in low and high places, would have been appreciably reduced, if the managers of the political economy (leaders…