Abstract
BRICS, the new international group of countries that have common plans, hopes and aspirations in today’s globalised world faces a common enemy in pursuing their ambitious developmental objectives, corruption. Their leaderships have been brave enough throughout the years to admit to the problem openly and they have promulgated legislation and established mechanisms to fight corruption. The present article that aspires to fill a gap in empirical comparative literature dealing with different levels of corruption begins with an overall picture of the phenomenon in the terrain of healthcare and its various dimensions of human, societal and organisational dynamics. These are instrumental in understanding the multi-facet nature of the phenomenon. Both Brazil and Russia have an assortment of anti-corruption legislative and regulatory measures against corruption that are outlined with brief expositions of the most important amongst them. The methodology followed in the study is primarily qualitative and interpretative in nature and it is based on extensive primary and secondary documentary research in both Brazil and Russia and with comprehensive unstructured interviews with researchers, academics, experts, legal professionals and business people. The analysis of data was based on a meticulous process of transcription, coding and categorisation of data and the comparative picture of corruption in the two countries unveiled the various types, forms and instances. The analysis presented a number of differences and similarities in both the private and public healthcare sectors in a comparative perspective.
