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

By Vito Tanzi

May 1, 1998

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Vito Tanzi. Corruption Around the World: Causes, Consequences, Scope, and Cures, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1998) accessed November 8, 2024
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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

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    39

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1998/063

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0631998

  • ISBN:

    9781451848397

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

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

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