The government's ability to deliver inclusive growth crucially depends on the quality of governance. This paper reviews … discretion and hence the space for policy errors; (2) human resource policies, capacity building, effective anti-corruption …

Government intervention to correct market failures is often accompanied by government failures and corruption. This is … no more evident than in social sectors that are characterized by significant market failures and government intervention …. However, the impact of corruption on the public provision of social services has not been analyzed. This paper reviews the …

Anecdotal evidence relates corruption with high levels of military spending. This paper tests empirically whether such … the period 1985–98. The association between military spending and corruption is ascertained by using panel regression … techniques. The results suggest that corruption is indeed associated with higher military spending as a share of both GDP and …

economic literature by assuming that (i) the relationship between the government and its population is regulated through an … corruption reflects a very stable equilibrium, which in turn reflects the fact that several constraints are simultaneously …

Central government wage expenditures accounted for 7 percent of GDP in 99 countries during 1980-90 (unweighted average … countries, and small low-income economies tend to have lower central government wage expenditures as a percent of GDP. Access to … foreign financing is not; the public and publicly guaranteed foreign financing is often provided for government capital …