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Regulation plays a key part in public service reforms. However, corruption and the risk of capture may undermine the … purposes of these reforms. Both cost and incentive based regulations carry corruption and capture risks. This document shows …
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Inefficiencies in the bureaucratic organization of the state are often viewed as important factors in retarding economic development. Why certain societies choose or end up with such inefficient organizations has received very little attention, however. In this paper, we present a simple theory...
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rather rooted in the unmanaged population growth, the harsh access to land and the corruption within the government along …
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The present paper analyzes the phenomenon of corruption in the context of a Public Works Department (PWD) in a … supervisor (official) of the PWD have been considered. The interesting result to emerge is that corruption may show a high degree …
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Corruption has a negative impact on society and economy. The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE …) uncovered dormant possibilities for corruption and necessity for appropriate steps to be taken. We document the state of … corruption in the Czech Republic and the measures introduced to fight it. We cover sectors of society and economy according to …
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This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...
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dissertations or qualifications of newly produced doctorates. Such a trend may in part be a result of the growing corruption in … Federation. It describes corruption in conferring doctoral degrees in its most explicit forms and focuses on possible solutions … corruption in doctoral education really a bad thing? Is it possible to stop such a practice and how? Answering these questions …
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There is now a considerable body of literature on decentralization in diverse national contexts. Ascertaining factors that drive local accountability and performance have been the key concerns of these studies. Diverse ethodological instruments and approaches have been used—from large-n...
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This paper addresses issues of corruption and evasion in the collection oftaxes, modelled as a three-level hierarchy …
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of Mani Pulite was so much influential that since then many indicators suggest a steadily decreasing path for corruption … in Italy. This paper shows that Mani Pulite was mainly effective in deterring corruption as it broke up the feed due to …
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