competition policies for poverty reduction strategies …

finance, exposure to corruption, and sales growth. Relying on a data set of more than 70,000 firms in 121 countries, the … financial constraints than unaudited firms. On the other hand, audited firms face a significantly higher level of corruption … considerations of the endogeneity of auditing and to alternative measures of corruption and financial constraints. The findings …

Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government …

empirically shown to be more important in combating corruption than exit options made available through competition among … corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such relationship as well as using … superior and more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of …

Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

Control of Corruption. The aggregate indicators are based on several hundred individual underlying variables, taken from a …

Stability and Absence of Violence, Government Effectiveness, Regulatory Quality, Rule of Law, and Control of Corruption. This …

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …

methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete …