Governance, Corruption, and Economic Performance
September 24, 2002
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This volume presents 18 IMF research studies on the causes and consequences of corruption, as well as how it can most effectively be combated to improve governance, increase economic growth, and reduce poverty. The authors examine how civil service wages affect corruption, the impact of natural resource availability on corruption, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of poverty, and the effect of corruption on government expenditures on health and education.
Subject: Corruption, Crime, Defense spending, Expenditure, Income, Macrostructural analysis, National accounts, Personal income, Structural reforms
Keywords: Africa, Baltics, BOOK, Caribbean, consequences of corruption, Corruption, corruption index, Defense spending, Europe, Global, Income, part iii corruption, part IV corruption, Personal income, rent seeker, rent seeking, revenue-GDP ratio, Structural reforms, Sub-Saharan Africa, transition economy, utility function
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580
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