I study the link between ethnic diversity, democracy, and corruption. In a static model, I show that contrary to … conventional wisdom, corruption might emerge as a negative externality of democracy. This occurs through ethnicity, which appears … other words, the model predicts that democracy exhibits a threshold effect on corruption …

Recent studies have highlighted the adverse impact of corruption on economic performance. This paper advances the … hypothesis that corruption is largely a symptom of underlying weaknesses in public policies and institutions, a formulation that … provides deeper insights into economic performance than do measures of “perceived corruption.” The hypothesis is tested by …

discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

Direct measurement of corruption is difficult due to its hidden nature, and measuring the perceptions of corruption via … countries by applying sentiment analysis to Financial Times articles over 2005-18. This sentiment-enhanced corruption perception … index (SECPI) captures not only the frequncy of corruption related articles, but also the articles' sentiment towards …

This paper argues that oil revenue management and public investment in Congo are vulnerable to corruption as a result … of limited transparency and accountability. Corruption has potentially contributed to poor macro-fiscal outcomes. The … paper acknowledges the authorities' anti-corruption efforts made so far and proposes further critical reforms to reduce …