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Croatia : Fiscal (De)centralization and Public Service Delivery
World Bank - 2013
This report discusses the contours of a possible strategic direction, the necessary basic institutional set up for implementation, and key reform policy options to be tackled in order to complete the foundations of the decentralization reform initiated in 2001. Croatia is still a highly...
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Localization and corruption : Panacea or Pandora's box?
Gurgur, Tugrul - 2005
"An extensive literature on the relationship between decentralization (or localization) and corruption has developed in … recent years. While some authors argue that there is a positive relationship between decentralization and corruption, others … claim that decentralization in fact leads to a reduction in the level of corruption. This important policy question has not …
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Tariff evasion and customs corruption : does pre-shipment inspection help?
Cadot, Olivier - 2003
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Populist fiscal policy
Khemani, Stuti - 2008
"Political economy explanations for fiscal profligacy are dominated by models of bargaining among organized interest groups over group-specific targeted benefits financed by generalized taxation. These models predict that governments consisting of a coalition of political parties spend more than...
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Implementing a Framework for Managing Fiscal Commitments from Public Private Partnerships
World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2014
This note presents practical guidance on how to implement a framework for managing fiscal commitments from Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs). It draws on specific regional operational experience and on World Bank Institute (WBI)'s wider thematic engagement with different partners worldwide. The...
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Africa Development Indicators 2010: Silent and Lethal : How Quiet Corruption Undermines Africa's Development Efforts
World Bank - 2010
delivery and regulation has adverse long-term effects on households. The term "quiet corruption" is introduced to indicate … service provision) that do not involve monetary exchange. The prevalence of quiet corruption and its long-term consequences …
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Trends in corruption and regulatory burden : Eastern Europe and Central Asia
2011
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The puppet masters : how the corrupt use legal structures to hide stolen assets and what to do about it
Does de Willebois, Emile van der (contributor) - 2011
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Fighting corruption in public services : chronicling Georgia's reforms
2012
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Governance, corruption, and trade in the Asia Pacific region
Abe, Kazutomo - 2008
"This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia … corruption. Results suggest that trade in the region would increase by 11 percent and global welfare would expand by …
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