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Barter has been commonly portrayed as a dangerous element in international relations. Barter is portrayed in much of the literature as a cyclical phenomenon which flourishes with economic depression and fades away with prosperity. It is also said by many critics that barter should be considered a destructive economic practice. Finally, great emphasis is placed on the geopolitical importance of barter. In particular, barter is associated with the aggressive economic statecraft practiced by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.This article attempts to look more closely at the assumptions of the critics of modem barter. The author concludes that there are fundamental differences between the 1930s and the 1980s. Barter in the 1980s appears not to point towards a destructive past but a dynamic and complex future.
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Corruption is a serious global threat that spares no country and whose effects can inevitably compromise citizen fulfilment. In this context, satisfying public service users is a difficult and complex task, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is plagued by this scourge. However, since finding mechanisms to remedy this situation is not insurmountable, this study examines the mediating effect of participation and the moderating role of transparency on the link between corruption and public service user satisfaction in Cameroon's municipalities. A survey of 856 users allows to test the hypotheses using structural equation modelling. The results show that all the postulated relationships are verified and that transparency moderates them. The uniqueness of this study lies in the joint integration of the ‘participation’ and ‘transparency’ attributes in assessing the satisfaction of users who are victims of informal payments, which attributes are rarely considered in the literature.
Keywords: Participation, Participation, transparency, transparence, satisfation, satisfaction, corruption, corruption, équations structurelles, structural equations