Governance, corruption & economic performance
By: George T. Abed, Sanjeev Gupta, editors.
Contributors: Abed, George T.; Gupta, Sanjeev.; International Monetary Fund.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund; Intl Monetary Fund; Brand: Intl Monetary Fund
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
Subjects: International Monetary Fund.; Political corruption -- Economic aspects.; Political corruption -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.
Other titles: Governance, corruption and economic performance
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The economics of corruption: an overview / George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta; title: pt. 1. Causes and consequences of corruption. Corruption around the world: causes, consequences, scope, and cures / Vito Tanzi; title: Bureaucratic corruption and the rate of temptation: do wages in the civil service affect corruption, and by how much? / Caroline Van Rijckeghem and Beatrice Weder; title: Controlling fiscal corruption / Sheetal K. Chand and Karl O. Moene; title: A game theoretic analysis of corruption in bureaucracies / Era Dabla-Norris; title: Institutionalized corruption and the kleptocratic state / Joshua Charap and Christian Harm; title: Does Mother Nature corrupt?: Natural resources, corruption, and economic growth / Carlos Leite and Jens Weidmann; title: Corruption, growth, and public finances / Vito Tanzi and Hamid R. Davoodi; title: pt. 2. Corruption and government expenditures. Corruption and the composition of government expenditure / Paolo Mauro; title: Corruption and the provision of health care and education services / Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid R. Davoodi, and Erwin R. Tiongson; title: Corruption, public investment, and growth / Vito Tanzi and Hamid R. Davoodi; title: Corruption and military spending / Sanjeev Gupta, Luiz de Mello, and Raju Sharan; title: Fiscal decentralization and governance: a cross-country analysis / Luiz de Mello and Matias Barenstein; title: pt. 3. Corruption and taxes. Tax revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa: effects of economic policies and corruption / Dhaneshwar Ghura; title: Corruption, extortion and evasion / Jean Hindriks, Michael Keen, and Abhinay Muthoo; title: pt. 4. Corruption, income distribution, and poverty. Production, rent seeking, and wealth distribution / Era Dabla-Norris and Paul Wade; title: Does corruption affect income inequality and poverty? / Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid R. Davoodi, and Rosa Alonso-Terme; title: pt. 5. Corruption and transition economies. Corruption, structural reforms, and economic performance in the transition economies / George T. Abed and Hamid R. Davoodi; title: Improving governance and fighting corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries: the role of the IMF/ Thomas Wolf and Emine Gürgen.