comply with regulations before undertaking an activity. Officials verify their compliance and may engage in corruption. In … line with existing work, the government tolerates corruption and weak enforcement when it does not communicate with … corruption and improves regulatory enforcement. In an extension, we incorporate intermediaries and show their presence makes the …

corruption in administrations. In our model, entrepreneurs must comply with regulation before undertaking a risky activity …

promoted to positions of national leadership. To curb corruption, President Xi Jinping stepped up investigations and … reduction in corruption of between 50.1% and 43.6% in the provinces either targeted by the central inspection teams or whose … party secretary was replaced by one appointed by Xi himself. Accordingly, this crackdown on corruption has also …

This paper argues that oil revenue management and public investment in Congo are vulnerable to corruption as a result … of limited transparency and accountability. Corruption has potentially contributed to poor macro-fiscal outcomes. The … paper acknowledges the authorities' anti-corruption efforts made so far and proposes further critical reforms to reduce …

This paper documents the clientelism in anti-corruption investigations across the interpolitician network in the … paper contributes to the on-going debate on the motivations of the incumbent government in anti-corruption campaigns …

opportunity for corruption and bribery. Moreover, the complex structure of the health sector leaves the sector more vulnerable to … corruption and bribery than other sectors. Along with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of corruption and bribery in public … procurements has increased more than ever. Corruption and bribery cause substandard and counterfeit products to be released to the …

A common objection to results-based programs is that they are somehow more vulnerable to corruption. This paper … explains why results-based approaches to foreign aid may be less vulnerable to corruption than the traditional approaches which … monitor and track the purchase and delivery of inputs and activities.The paper begins by classifying different corruption …

Although both the academic and policy communities have attached great importance to measuring corruption, most of the … currently available measures are biased and too broad to test theory or guide policy. This article proposes a new composite … indicator of grand corruption based on a wide range of elementary indicators. These indicators are derived from a rich …

, we confirm that political connections are essentially corruption. By constructing unique measures to partial out the key … seller, and during unannounced anti-corruption audit campaigns …