examination of taxation-related determinants of corruption prevalence (frequency and magnitude of bribery), as well as the effect … appears that, more than anything else, perceived corruption in tax administration and actual experiences with bribery during …Two competing conceptualizations of corruption in the literature allow viewing it either as efficient or burdensome …

health faced by countries in Europe and Central Asia. Good basic education will not be enough, as job markets today demand … the prevalence of three adult health risk factors - obesity, smoking, and heavy drinking - as an additional proxy for … latent health status. This extension of the Human Capital Index could also be useful for assessing the state of human capital …

The health equity and financial protection datasheets provide a picture of equity and financial protection in the … health sectors of low-and middle-income countries. Topics covered include: inequalities in health outcomes, health behavior … and health care utilization; benefit incidence analysis; financial protection; and the progressivity of health care …

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question … for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by … exploring the link between the size of the country and corruption. Economic theory suggests advantages and disadvantages of …