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Readings

Costs and Consequences of Corruption

  • The World Bank. 1998. "Corruption and Development." PREMNotes No. 4.May 1998. Washington DC.
  • Bardhan, Pranab, 1997, "Corruption and Development: A Review of Issues", Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 35 (September), No. 3, pp. 1320-46
  • Gray, Cheryl W. and Daniel Kaufmann. 1998. "Corruption and Development". Finance & Development. Vol. 35 (March 1998), No. 1, pp. 7-10.

Corruption, Poverty, and Inequality

Corruption & Fiscal Stability

Corruption, Growth, & Investment

 Corruption & Credibility & Legitimacy of State

  • Amundsen, Inge. 1999. Political corruption: an introduction to the issues. Chr. Michelsen Institute Working Paper (Norway) No.7 (1999), pp. 1-32
  • Della Porta, Donatella and Alberto Vannucci. 1999. Corrupt Exchanges : Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption (Social Problems and Social Issues). Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, USA
  • Elliott, Kimberly Ann. 1997. Corruption and the Global Economy. Institute for International Economics. Washington D.C.
  • Gyekye, Kwame. 1997. Political Corruption: A Philosophical Analysis of a Moral Problem. Sankofa. i-vi; 1-51, Accra
  • Heidenheimer, Arnold J. et. al., eds., New Political Corruption: A Handbook. 4th ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers.
  • Heidenheimer, Arnold J. and Michael Johnston (eds). 2002. Political corruption: concepts and contexts. Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Heywood, Paul (ed). 1997. Political Corruption. Blackwell. i-ii; 1-250, Oxford
  • Hunter, Jeff and Anwar Shah. 1998. “Applying a Simple Measure of Good Governance to the Debate of Fiscal Decentralization.” Policy Research Working Paper 1894 (March 1998). World Bank, D.C.
  • Johnston, Michael. 1991. “Political Corruption. Historical Conflict and the Rise of Standards.” Journal of Democracy Vol. 2. No. 4 (Fall 1991), pp. 48-60
  • Johnston, Michael. 1993. The Political Costs of Corruption. Paper presented at Primera Conferencia Latinoamericana de Lucha Contra La Corrupcion Administrativa. Santafe de Bogota, Colombia
  • Johnston, Michael. 1997. “Public Officials, Private Interest, and Sustainable Democracy: When Politics and Corruption Meet.” In: Elliott, Kimberly Ann (ed). 1997. Corruption and the Global Economy. Institute for International Economics. Washington D.C.
  • Johnston, Michael. 1999. "Party Systems, Competition, and Political Checks against Corruption" (presented, March 1999, at the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute, Florence, Italy; published as a Schuman Centre Working Paper)   
  • Johnston, Michael. 2000. “Corruption and Democratic Consolidation" (presented at a conference on "Democracy and Corruption" sponsored by the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University, March, 1999) 
  • OECD. 2000. Trust in Government. Ethics Measures in OECD Countries. Paris
  • Mbaku, John Mukum. 2000. Bureaucratic and Political Corruption in Africa: The Public Choice Perspective. Krieger Publishing.
  • OECD. 2000. Trust in Government. Ethics Measures in OECD Countries. Paris
  • Partnership for Governance Reform in Indonesia. 2002. A Diagnostic Study of Corruption in Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Rasheed, Sadig. 1995. Ethics and Accountability in the African Civil Service. DPMN Bulletin, Vol. 3, No. 1 (August 1995), pp. 12-14 
  • Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 1997. Corruption and Development, (has an extensive literature review
  • Rose-Ackerman, Susan. 1999. Corruption and Government. Causes, Consequences, and Reform. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom


Corruption & Development Assistance

  • Alesina, Alberto and Beatrice Weder. 1999. "Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?" NBER Working Paper No. 7108.
  • Burnside, Craig and David Dollar. 1998. "Aid, the Incentive Regime, and Poverty Reduction." Policy Research Working Paper No. 1937. World Bank, Washington DC.
  • Camerer, Lala. 1997. “Poverty and Corruption in South Africa: Government Corruption in Poverty Alleviation Programmes”, in: COSTLY CRIMES: Commercial Crime and Corruption in South Africa, Monograph No 15, September 1997. 
  • Coolidge, Jacqueline and Susan Rose-Ackerman. 2000. “Kleptocracy and Reform in African Regimes: Theory and Examples”, in: Kempe Ronal Hope, Sr and Bornwell C. Chikulo (eds). Corruption and Development in Africa. Lessons from Country Case-Studies. New York. St. Martin’s Press, pp. 57-86
  • Dollar, David and Lant Pritchett. Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why. 1998. Oxford University Press for the World Bank, Washington DC. 
  • Dudley, Richard. 2000. “The Rotten Mango. The Effect of Corruption on International Development Projects”. Unpublished paper.
  • Goldfarb, Danielle. 2001. “Who Gets CIDA Grants? Recipient Corruption and the Effectiveness of Development Aid”, in: Backgrounder, November 29, 2001, C.D. Howe Institute.
  • Maipose, Gervase S. 2000. “Aid Abuse and Mismanagement in Africa: Problems of Accountability, Transparency and Ethical Leadership”, in: Kempe Ronal Hope, Sr and Bornwell C. Chikulo (eds). Corruption and Development in Africa. Lessons from Country Case-Studies. New York. St. Martin’s Press, pp. 87-103
  • McCarthy, Paul. 2001. “Corruption in Indonesia’s Foreign Aid Programs: Naivety, Complacency and Complicity within Donor Agencies”, in: Stealing from the People, Partnership for Governance Reform. Indonesia. 2002
  • Svensson, Jakob. 2000.  "Foreign Aid and Rent-Seeking", Journal of International Economics, 2000, Vol. 51 (2): 437-461. 
  • World Bank. 2000. Helping Countries Combat Corruption. Progress at the World Bank Since 1997. Washington DC


Corruption & the Environment

 Combating Corruption

The Role of the World Bank and Other Organizations

  •   World Bank Efforts
    • Helping Countries Combat Corruption , The Role of the World Bank.  September 1997.
    • PovertyReduction and Economic Management. The World Bank.
    • Helping Countries Combat Corruption, Progress at the World Bank since 1999. June 2000.
    • Operational Core Service (OCS) and Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM). The World Bank.
    • Reforming Public Institution and Strengthening Governance, A World Bank Strategy. November 2000. Public Sector Group, PREM Network. The World Bank.
    • Governance and Public Sector Reform, Public Sector Group, PREM Network

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