Thematic Overview of Corruption in Infrastructure Procurement Process
Publication: Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Volume 25, Issue 2
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Acknowledgments
We express our sincere gratitude to the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong and to the Hong Kong Polytechnic University for funding this study. The authors are extremely grateful to all the anonymous reviewers for providing constructive comments to enhance the quality of this paper.
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Received: Jul 29, 2018
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Published online: Feb 27, 2019
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