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and corruption not only remain, they have become the primary development challenges of the 21st century. In particular … institutions and governance to provide citizen security, justice and jobs is crucial to break cycles of violence while stimulating …
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This paper examines the complexity and "fuzzy logic" actually at play in governance in case studies such as HIH …?organisation. Their governance often involves decision-making behaviour that does not operate according to formulaic rules but is …
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-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …
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In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...
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governance for a panel of 54 countries both developed and developing. Using three measures of corruption and five measures of … other aspects of governance, we repeatedly observe that corruption is always detrimental in countries where institutions are …This paper tests whether corruption can be viewed as an efficient grease in the wheels of an otherwise deficient …
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reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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reduce corruption. Overall, the judiciary and the police are by far the most corrupt institutions. …
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are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …
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This paper develops a proxy measure of the inequality of influence on the basis of survey evidence from 2002 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted among 6,500 firms in 27 transition countries. We refer to the resulting inequality as crony bias in the political...
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