International Journal of Neutrosophic Science
IJNS
2690-6805
2692-6148
10.54216/IJNS
https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/4179
2020
2020
A Neutrosophic Framework for Multilevel Corruption Assessment in Central Asian Societies
Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Samandarboy
Samandarboy
Department of Business Administration, Tashkent State University of Economics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Gafurov Ubaydullo
Vakhabovich
We introduce a neutrosophic framework to assess corruption across micro, meso, and macro levels and illustrate it with a public, fully synthetic dataset covering five Central Asian societies (2020–2025). The framework models the proposition “High Corruption” with three independent degrees: Truth (T ), Indeterminacy (I), and Falsity (F), which need not sum to one. We propose a summary index—the Neutrosophic Evidence Risk Index (NERI)—that couples evidence for and against high corruption with indeterminacy. Empirically, we document three stylized patterns in the synthetic data: (i) a moderate decline in country-level NERI over time for most countries; (ii) a negative association between region-year e-service adoption and bribe solicitation; and (iii) a negative association between digital government capacity and T at the country-year level. For example, the average bribe-solicitation rate is 0.047 overall, 0.198 without e-services (95% CI 0.175–0.220) vs. 0.019 with e-services (95% CI 0.015–0.022), implying a risk difference of -0.179 and a relative risk of 0.094.
2026
2026
474
488
10.54216/IJNS.270238
https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/21/show/4179