Eight Questions about Corruption
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- 1 August 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by American Economic Association in Journal of Economic Perspectives
- Vol. 19 (3) , 19-42
- https://doi.org/10.1257/089533005774357860
Abstract
This paper will discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption: (1) What is corruption? (2) Which countries are the most corrupt? (3) What are the common characteristics of countries with high corruption? (4) What is the magnitude of corruption? (5) Do higher wages for bureaucrats reduce corruption? (6) Can competition reduce corruption? (7) Why have there been so few (recent) successful attempts to fight corruption? (8) Does corruption adversely affect growth?This publication has 36 references indexed in Scilit:
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