Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures

May 1, 1998

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Summary

Corruption is attracting a lot of attention around the world. The paper surveys and discusses issues related to the causes, consequences, and scope of corruption and possible corrective actions. It emphasizes the costs of corruption in terms of economic growth. It also emphasizes that the fight against corruption may not be cheap and cannot be independent from the reform of the state. If certain reforms are not made, corruption is likely to continue to be a problem regardless of actions directly aimed at curtailing it.

Subject: Civil service, Corruption, Crime, Expenditure, Labor, Public sector wages, Tax incentives, Taxes

Keywords: Civil service, Corruption, donor country, East Asia, excess demand, government benefit, government-imposed rigidity, market economy, public expenditure, Public sector wages, regulations, role of state, South Asia, Southeast Asia, state-citizen relationship, Tax incentives, transition country, way government, WP

Pages:
39
Volume:
1998
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451848397.001
Issue:
063
Series:
Working Paper No. 1998/063
Stock No:
WPIEA0631998
ISBN:
9781451848397
ISSN:
1018-5941

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Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 45, No. 4, December 1998.

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