Introduction -- Some important definitions and Two Divergent Views -- Role of the State, Notion of Efficiency, Types of Economic Policy -- How Fiscal Policy Works -- Market Failure and Government Failure -- Size of the Public Sector, Costs of Taxation -- Fiscal policy in a Globalized World --...

The present paper analyzes the phenomenon of corruption in the context of a Public Works Department (PWD) in a developing country city and examines its tenacity in the face of anticorruption measures. Different behaviour patterns of the supervisor (official) of the PWD have been considered. The...