. Scholarship on elite clientelism links cabinet positions with corruption and practices that undermine sound policy making. This …

This paper addresses the causal relationship between corruption and youth unemployment from two different perspectives …. The discussion starts by asking how the corruption practices within government institutions that encourage the payment of … controlling for various macroeconomic and institutional factors, the development of corruption practices tend to increase the …

A new measure of cross-national corruption is constructed based on the geographic distribution of public officials … involved in cross-border corruption cases. A comparison is made between the Public Administration Corruption Index (PACI) and … increasingly valid cross-national measure of corruption …

Two competing conceptualizations of corruption in the literature allow viewing it either as efficient or burdensome …' experience of corruption in tax administration. The findings presented in the paper provide provisional support for the second … line of reasoning, that corruption in taxation is a burden, rather than a type of efficiency. Special emphasis is given to …

competition and corruption levels. This paper adds to the evidence base, using data on almost 34,000 firms from the World Bank …

informal payments to teachers are common migration could therefore increase petty corruption in education. This hypothesis is … data and matched administrative records from the World Bank's Open Budget Initiative (BOOST) from Moldova, one of the …

paper shows how this new research can shed light on the ubiquity of corruption in so many societies, and proposes ideas for … controlling corruption …

This study examines household perceptions and experiences with corruption in the Kyrgyz Republic. The aims of the study … are two-fold: first, to assess the level of administrative corruption in public service agencies, and second, to assess … the impact of corruption on different income groups. This Poverty and Social Impact Analysis (PSIA) included a nationally …

The war against corruption in the Philippines has taken a fresh turn with the inauguration of President Gloria … Macapagal-Arroyo on January 20, 2001, and the subsequent installation of the new government. Addressing corruption was one of … corruption was felt more widely and urgently. This need for concrete and visible actions to combat corruption still exists, maybe …