This report provides analytic support to the National Anti-corruption Strategy (NACS) formulation, offers lessons from … international experience on governance and anti-corruption (GAC) policy, and generally supports the Government and its development … partners to better understand the phenomenon of corruption in Mauritania. The report is structured as follows: Chapter 2 …

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 …

"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 …

"This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and …. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change in "state … capture" in the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non …

"This paper examines the conceptual and empirical basis of corruption and governance and concludes that decentralized … local governance is conducive to reduced corruption in the long run. This is because localization helps to break the … as a means to making government responsive and accountable to people can help reduce corruption and improve service …

during crisis than in externally less dependent industries in countries with higher levels of corruption. He finds the … array of robustness checks, including using different indices of corruption, different controls, and robust estimation …