Governance, corruption & economic performance / George T. Abed, Sanjeev Gupta, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

The economics of corruption: an overview / George T. Abed and Sanjeev Gupta -- pt. 1. Causes and consequences of corruption. Corruption around the world: causes, consequences, scope, and cures / Vito Tanzi -- 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 -- Controlling fiscal corruption / Sheetal K. Chand and Karl O. Moene -- A game theoretic analysis of corruption in bureaucracies / Era Dabla-Norris -- Institutionalized corruption and the kleptocratic state / Joshua Charap and Christian Harm -- Does Mother Nature corrupt?: Natural resources, corruption, and economic growth / Carlos Leite and Jens Weidmann -- Corruption, growth, and public finances / Vito Tanzi and Hamid R. Davoodi -- pt. 2. Corruption and government expenditures. Corruption and the composition of government expenditure / Paolo Mauro -- Corruption and the provision of health care and education services / Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid R. Davoodi, and Erwin R. Tiongson -- Corruption, public investment, and growth / Vito Tanzi and Hamid R. Davoodi -- Corruption and military spending / Sanjeev Gupta, Luiz de Mello, and Raju Sharan -- Fiscal decentralization and governance: a cross-country analysis / Luiz de Mello and Matias Barenstein -- pt. 3. Corruption and taxes. Tax revenue in Sub-Saharan Africa: effects of economic policies and corruption / Dhaneshwar Ghura -- Corruption, extortion and evasion / Jean Hindriks, Michael Keen, and Abhinay Muthoo -- pt. 4. Corruption, income distribution, and poverty. Production, rent seeking, and wealth distribution / Era Dabla-Norris and Paul Wade -- Does corruption affect income inequality and poverty? / Sanjeev Gupta, Hamid R. Davoodi, and Rosa Alonso-Terme -- pt. 5. Corruption and transition economies. Corruption, structural reforms, and economic performance in the transition economies / George T. Abed and Hamid R. Davoodi -- Improving governanceand fighting corruption in the Baltic and CIS countries: the role of the IMF/ Thomas Wolf and Emine Gürgen.

This volume presents 18 recent 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 the incidence of corruption, whether corruption may encourage economic stability and various aspects of controlling fiscal corruption. They also investigate the impact of national resource availability on corruption, how corruption retards the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, the impact of corruption on a country’s income distribution and incidence of poverty, and the importance of structural reform in combating corruption.

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