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How Bribery Distorts Firm Growth : Differences by Firm Attributes

??eker, Murat; Yang, Judy S. - 2012

Latin America and Caribbean region, bribery significantly distorts firm growth. Firms that pay bribes when conducting …

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Kenny, Charles; S??reide, Tina - 2012

This paper discusses mechanisms of grand corruption in private sector utility provision in developing countries. By the term "grand corruption," the authors abstract from the petty corruption that consumers experience - for example, when firms and individuals pay bribes to get water delivery or...

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How Does Bribery Affect Public Service Delivery? Micro-Evidence from Service Users and Public Officials in Peru

Kaufmann, Daniel; Montoriol-Garriga, Judit; Recanatini, … - 2012

users may be discouraged and choose not to seek a service due to the higher price imposed by the bribery "tax." This paper …, the bribery tax is regressive. Where there are substitute private providers, low-income users appear to be discouraged … more often and not to seek basic services. Thus, bribery may penalize poorer users twice - acting as a regressive tax and …

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Informal Payments and Moonlighting in Tajikistan's Health Sector

Dabalen, Andrew; Wane, Waly - 2012

This paper studies the relationship between gender and corruption in the health sector. It uses data collected directly from health workers, during a recent public expenditure tracking survey in Tajikistan's health sector. Using informal payments as an indicator of corruption, women seem at...

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators and Tautology : Causally Related Separable Concepts, Indicators of a Common Cause, or Both?

Langbein, Laura; Knack, Stephen - 2012

Aggregate indexes of the quality of governance, covering large samples of countries, are widely used in research and in aid policy. Few studies examine the validity of these indexes, however. This paper partially fills this gap by examining empirically the dimensionality of the Worldwide...

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Governance, Corruption, and Trade in the Asia Pacific Region

Abe, Kazutomo; Wilson, John S. - 2012

This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation region. The authors find, based on a computable general equilibrium model, significant potential trade and welfare gains for Asia Pacific Economic...

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The Worldwide Governance Indicators Project : Answering the Critics

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2012

The Worldwide Governance Indicators, reporting estimates of six dimensions of governance for over 200 countries between 1996 and 2005, have become widely used among policymakers and academics. They have also attracted some explicit written criticisms. In this short paper the authors synthesize...

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Economic Information and Finance : More Information Means More Credit, Fewer Bad Loans, and Less Corruption

Islam, Roumeen - 2012

This paper builds on recent work that shows how financial sector outcomes are affected by the provision of information by financial and other entities. In particular, it shows that an indicator of economic transparency is positively related to higher levels of private credit and a lower share of...

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Construction, Corruption, and Developing Countries

Kenny, Charles - 2012

The construction industry accounts for about one-third of gross capital formation. Governments have major roles as clients, regulators, and owners of construction companies. The industry is consistently ranked as one of the most corrupt: large payments to gain or alter contracts and circumvent...

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Infrastructure Governance and Corruption : Where Next?

Kenny, Charles - 2012

Governance is central to development outcomes in infrastructure, not least because corruption (a symptom of failed governance) can have significantly negative impact on returns to infrastructure investment. This conclusion holds whether infrastructure is in private or public hands. This paper...

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