politicians may have to engage in political corruption and management. The presence of a well-informed electorate in a democratic … setting explains between one half and two thirds of the variance in the levels of governmental performance and corruption …

. Reducing corruption, in turn, stimulates technological change and spurs economic growth. Empirical evidence is presented …

levels of public corruption and of effective governance taking place across nations. The first section develops a principal … Kaufmann et al. (1999a); a panel data set for the period 1980-95 and about 100 nations on corruption and bureaucratic quality … based on experts` rankings; and corruption data for the cross-section of US states in the period 1977-95 …

This paper examines the indirect role the IMF plays in combating corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries by … analysis draws on examples of actual experience with corruption and outlines some of the structural measures under IMF …-supported arrangements, which, if successfully implemented, can be expected to help gradually alleviate corruption. It also summarizes IMF …

While there's an outsized consensus within the empirical literature on the negative impact of corruption on the … economic process, some studies still argue that corruption could also be economically justified. There is, however, little … empirical evidence to validate the impact of corruption on economic growth within the devolved units. The effect of the …

Corruption is often a source of contentious debate, covering different areas of knowledge, such as philosophy and … sociology. In this paper we assess the effects of corruption on economic activity and highlight the relevance of the size of the … 2019. We find an adverse effect of corruption on the level and growth of GDP per capita, but that large governments benefit …

1. We the people -- 2. Corruption no more -- 3. The technicalitites. …

the quality of governance in an unbalanced panel data set consisting of all countries in the world (217 countries; due to …