Forward and overview / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Public Sector Performance, Development, and Public Participation. Improving public sector performance in developing countries: Practice meets scholarship -- The strength of weak effects -- Finance, state-owned enterprise, and development: A...

Corruption can arise in any bureaucracy with the authority to allocate benefits and impose costs. This paper articulates general economic principles that can help identify corrupt incentives and guide reform. It draws from models of bureaucratic behavior, especially the economic literature on...

International institutions' role in controlling corruption is necessarily limited. Nevertheless, well-executed international efforts can benefit ordinary people and may help domestic and global businesses. Efforts to reduce corruption ought to be linked to the ultimate goals of economic...

Calls for reform of the Chinese healthcare system are voiced at the highest levels of government, but this article argues that reform cannot succeed unless policymakers confront the incentives for corruption built into the institutional structure of the healthcare system. Focusing on the markets...