corruption increases the loss of human lives caused by natural disasters, using a large panel of 135 countries during the period … 1980-2020. The econometric analysis provides convincing evidence that corruption increases the number of disaster … corruption in a given country, the greater the number of fatalities as a share of population due to natural disasters. Our …

This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …

Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and … corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …

studying both own-country and cross-country linkages. In this paper, we add Indonesia to a previously estimated small quarterly …

Indonesia's tax reform cum fiscal adjustment experience since 2001. The paper describes Indonesia's fiscal adjustment strategy … priorities are identified for Indonesia's ongoing efforts to strengthen tax administration …