We examine the effect of corruption in municipal governments on health and education outcomes in the Philippines. We … find that corruption lowers the immunization rate of children, delays the vaccination of newborns, prevents the treatment …, and increases waiting time of patients at health clinics. Corruption also has a negative effect on education outcomes: it …

Traditionally, national governance and corruption challenges have been seen as: i) particularly daunting in the poorer … undue influence. We construct a new set of ethics indices, encompassing forms of (legal) corruption not subject to … measurement in conventional (illegal) corruption indicators. It is found that manifestations of legal corruption may be more …

corruption, with little attention paid to the role played by firms. Consequently, the links between corporate governance and … Performance Survey (BEEPS) across 20 transition economies, providing an assessment of governance and corruption from the … survey design permits an in-depth empirical analysis of governance and corruption, unbundling governance into its component …

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

unbundling of corruption into meaningful and measurable components. They contrast state capture (firms shaping and affecting … without recourse to payments) and with administrative corruption ("petty" forms of bribery in connection with the … empirical measurement utilizing the BEEPS data. State capture, influence, and administrative corruption are all shown to have …

the dependent variable. Organized crime is also found to cause episodes of corruption in the public administration. A …

least favorable to them and that are often associated with “grand corruption”: when corrupt actors are few and politically … Colombian School Meals Program. Nevertheless, informal audits and text messages to parents appear to curb corruption in the …

corruption is a problem related both to market and State failures, and collective action problems in general. In a non economic … language, it adresses the relationship between market, State and social decision-making, in connection with corruption debates … that put the issue at the center of those concerns. Finally, there is a critical reading of economic theories on corruption …