-- Improving governance and fighting corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries: the role of the IMF/ Thomas Wolf and Emine Gürgen …The economics of corruption: an overview / George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- pt. 1. Causes and consequences of … corruption. Corruption around the world: causes, consequences, scope, and cures / Vito Tanzi -- Bureaucratic corruption and the …

This volume presents 18 recent IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can … civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the … growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of …

Corruption and inflation are two economic problems with serious social consequences. This paper analyzes the link … inflation and corruption. The direction of causality favors the hypothesis that the inflation of agricultural products promotes … incentives that lead to an increase in corruption levels. These results have important implications in terms of fighting …

institutional environment variables at the sub-national level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. We find basic … protection (with corruption as an element), access to finance and infrastructure, and the existence of a strong agglomeration …