Seize the state, seize the day
Subtitle: state capture, corruption, and influence in transition
By: Joel S. Hellman, Geraint Jones, Daniel Kaufmann.
Contributors: Jones, Geraint.; Kaufmann, Daniel, 1951-; World Bank Institute. Governance, Regulation, and Finance Division.; World Bank. Europe and Central Asia Region. Public Sector Group.; European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Chief Economist's Office.
Series: Policy research working paper ;; 2444; Policy research working papers (Online) ;; 2444.
Publisher: World Bank, World Bank Institute, Governance, Regulation, and Finance Division, and, Europe and Central Asia Region, Public Sector Group, and, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Office of the Chief Economist
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Business enterprises -- Developing countries -- Corrupt practices; Corporations -- Developing countries -- Corrupt practices; Political corruption -- Developing countries; Bribery -- Developing countries
Notes: Also available in print.
Title from title screen as viewed on Oct. 09, 2002.
"September 2000."
In a decade of transition, fear of a leviathan state is giving way to increased focus on oligarchs who "capture the state." In the capture economy, the policy and legal environment is shaped to the captor's huge advantage at the expense of the rest of the enterprise sector. This has major implications for policy.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.