illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption and economic growth in Nigeria. We proposed anti-corruption …

This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices … of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private … the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions for the climate of business operation and …

grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …

traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …

Corruption scandals seem to abound in countries that have recently undergone reform. Despite the proliferation of … stories in the news media, no one has examined whether reform—be it democratization or economic liberalization or both …—actually causes an increase in corruption. Theory provides no guidance as to the direction of causality—on the one hand, reforms make …