This study is the first attempt to systematically examine the impact of bad governance practices in Indonesia on … poverty reduction. Indonesia is a country that has endured bad governance for a long period, but also has sustained … significant poverty reduction. Prior to the onset of the economic crisis in mid 1997, the problem of bad governance in Indonesia …

corruption’s harmful effects on growth are smaller when regulation is greater. …Previous research has found a negative effect of corruption on growth in the United States. However, some theory … suggests corruption might have a positive impact in places with dysfunctional political institutions. This paper investigates …

This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; 2) competition and privatization reduces … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that 1) strong regulatory substance …

in Djibouti by both the macroeconomic and microeconomic analysis. The review shows that institutional habits (corruption …, going right) in regulation created transaction costs and force small businesses to take refuge in the informal sector. A …

Purpose – This paper assesses the determinants of corruption-control with freedom dynamics (economic, political, press … characteristic, the following findings have been established. (1) While political freedom increases corruption-control (CC) in a … tradition improves CC. Originality/value – We complement the literature on the fight against corruption in Africa by employing …

This paper examines the relationship between corruption and infrastructure at both the country and regional level using … the measure of corruption in the macro data and the measures of transportation and electricity infrastructure. Countries … with more corruption tend to have worse infrastructure in the eyes of their firms. This link is shown to remain when one …

The vulnerability of health sector to corruption lies in the complex interaction between the social environment and the … corruption on health expenditure. In Italy corruption is a social phenomenon. Health sector has been often involved in corruption … o¤ences and decentralized health expenditure is considerably out of control. We show that the impact of corruption on …