Is privatisation an important factor behind the current levels of corruption across the transition region?

Economics/Politics Full essay title: Causes of corruption: Is privatisation (speed and modes) an important factor behind the current levels of corruption observed across the transition region? Transition region refers to CEE (Central & Eastern Europe) and FSU (Former Soviet Union). Every essay must include at the end a bibliography of works cited, arranged in alphabetical order by the writer’s surname, stating the full publication details of books, articles, and other materials consulted. Titles of books and journals should be italicised or underlined and titles of articles or book chapters should be indicated with inverted commas. Every essay must also include references to works cited, quotations in the body of your essay etc. Each time you refer to something (ideas, facts, arguments) ‘belonging’ to someone else, you must attribute to him/her in one of two ways: short citations in the text – e.g. … ‘there are a substantial number of communities where English is used “intranationally” (Stevens 1980:112) even though it is not the mother tongue’. The full publication details of Stevens’s work will be given in the ‘References’ list at the end of the essay – OR – numbered footnotes or endnotes (standard Humanities system), with bibliography at end of essay. The foot- or endnotes should include full bibliographical details the first time a work is mentioned; subsequent references to the same source can be abbreviated. E.g. 1st reference: Lindsey Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press 1998 (hereafter, Hughes, Russia), p. 27. Repeated reference: Hughes, Russia, p. 25. You should give specific page numbers in your citations/foot-/endnotes, unless you are referring to the whole book or article.