Institutions, Governance and the Control of Corruption

Considers the economic, political, legal and social implications of a corrupt economic system

Includes contributions from leading world experts on the topic of corruption and leakage A global perspective featuring some of the latest thinking on corruption

Autorentext
Kaushik Basu is Professor of Economics and holds the C. Marks Chair at Cornell University, New York, USA; and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, 2012-16, and Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, 2009-12.

Tito Cordella is adviser in the World Bank Development Economics Group, Washington DC, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Anti-Corruption Institutions: Some History and Theory.- 3. Corruption as a Political Phenomenon.- 4.Corruption, Organized Crime, and Money Laundering.- 5. Reflections on Corruption in the Context of Political and Economic Liberalization.- 6. Why is Italy Disproportionally Corrupt? A Conjecture.- 7. Cohesive Institutions and the Distribution of Political Rents.- 8. If Politics Is the Problem, How Can External Actors Be Part of the Solution?.- 9. Fighting Political Corruption: Evidence from Brazil.- 10. What Drives Citizen Perceptions of Government Corruption? National Income, Petty Bribe Payments and the Unknown.- 10. What Drives Citizen Perceptions of Government Corruption? National Income, Petty Bribe Payments and the Unknown.- 11. Doing the Survey Two-Step: The Effects of Reticence on Estimates of Corruption in Two-Stage Survey Questions.