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 Governance Indicators: Where Are We, Where Should We Be Going?
January 2008 • Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay
Abstract • Full Text (256 kb pdf)  Corruption and Fraud Detection by Supreme Audit Institutions 2007 • Kenneth Dye Abstract • Full Text (128 kb pdf)  Corruption in Tax Administration 2007 • Mahesh Purohit Abstract • Full Text (127 kb pdf)  Disrupting Corruption 2007 • Omar Azfar Abstract • Full Text (164 kb pdf)  Tailoring the Fight against Corruption to Country Circumstances 2007 • Anwar Shah Abstract • Full Text (147 kb pdf) Measuring Corruption: Myths and Realities
May 2006 • Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay and Massimo Mastruzzi
First Draft (27 kb pdf) Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance January, 2006 • Anwar Shah Abstract • Full Text (320 kb pdf) Legal Corruption
October 2005 • Daniel Kaufmann and Pedro C. Vicente, Second Draft
Abstract • Full Text (765 kb pdf) Myths and Realities of Governance and Corruption
September 2005 • Daniel Kaufmann
Abstract • Full Text (129 kb pdf) Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index: Whose Perceptions Are They Anyway? March 2005 • Theresa Thompson and Anwar Shah Abstract • Full Text (214 kb pdf)  Localization and Corruption: Panacea or Pandora’s Box? January 2005 • Anwar Shah, Tugrul Gurgur Abstract • Full Text (244 kb pdf)  Combating Corruption: Look Before You Leap December 2004 • Anwar Shah and Mark Schacter Abstract • Full Text (118 kb pdf) Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World
September 2004 • D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (1.35 mb pdf) Governance Redux: The Empirical Challenge
2004 • D. Kaufmann Chapter in Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004, World Economic Forum
Abstract • Full text (177 kb pdf) Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996–2002
May 2003 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay and M. Mastruzzi
Abstract • Full text (604 kb pdf) Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy
March 2003 • D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (232 kb pdf) • Executive Summary (20 kb pdf) • Abstracto en español • Texto completo en español (117 kb pdf) The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Chapter 9 in Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries, eds. G. Fields and G. Pfefferman, Kluwer Academic Publishers
2003 • G. Batra, D. Kaufmann and A.H.W. Stone
Abstract • Full text (113 kb pdf) Growth Without Governance (EconomÃa, Volume 3, Number 1)
Fall 2002 • D. Kaufmann and A. Kraay
Abstract • Full text (234 kb pdf) Voice or Public Sector Management? An Empirical Investigation of Determinants of Public Sector Performance based on a Survey of Public Officials
June 2002 • D. Kaufmann, G. Mehrez and T. Gurgur
Abstract • Full text (897 kb pdf) Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?
February 2002 • D. Kaufmann, M. Mastruzzi and D. Zavaleta
Abstract • Full text (1.17 Mb pdf) Confronting the Challenge of State Capture in Transition EconomiesÂ
(from the IMF's Finance and Development)
September 2001 • J. Hellman and D. Kaufmann
View article • Texto completo en español (306 kb pdf) • Texte complete en français (306 kb pdf) • Full text in Russian (1.16 Mb pdf) • Full text in Chinese (1.19 Mb pdf) • Full text in Arabic (950 kb pdf) Anti-corruption Policies and Programs: A Framework for Evaluation, Vol. 1 December 2000 • Anwar Shah and Jeff Huther Abstract • Full Text (1.68 mb) Coalition-Building to Fight Corruption
November 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (91 kb pdf) Slide presentation on Governance and Controlling Corruption Is Central for Socioeconomic Development and Growth: New Reports and Evidence
November 2000 • D. Kaufmann
Complete slide set (568 kb PowerPoint presentation) Reducing Corruption at the Local Level
October 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (113 kb pdf) Seize the State, Seize the Day: State Capture, Corruption, and Influence in Transition Economies (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2444)
September 2000 • J. Hellman, G. Jones, and D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Synthesis (168 kb pdf) • Full text (SSRN, 464 kb pdf) • Synthesis in Russian (1.2 Mb pdf) Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Remuneration of Heterogeneous Inspectors (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2394)
July 2000 • W. Wane
Abstract • Full text (341 kb pdf) Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action (from the IMF's Finance and Development)
June 2000 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Full text • View datasets • Full text in Arabic (426 kb pdf) • Full text in Russian (192 kb pdf) • Versión en español (122 kb pdf) • Version française (122 kb pdf) Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism (from Journal of Public Economics)
June 2000 • S. Johnson, D. Kaufmann, J. McMillan, and C. Woodruff
Abstract • Full text (110 kb pdf) Corruption and the Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2360)
June 2000 • B. K. Smarzynska and S. J. Wei
Abstract • Full text (80 kb pdf) Dodging the Grabbing Hand: The Determinants of Unofficial Activity in 69 Countries (from Journal of Public Finance)
June 2000 • E. Friedman, S. Johnson, D. Kaufmann, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Abstract • Full text (62 kb pdf) Reducing Corruption: Lessons from Venezuela (World Bank PREMNote 39)
May 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (153 kb pdf) Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2312)
April 2000 • J. Hellman, G. Jones, D. Kaufmann, and M. Schankerman
Abstract • Full text (600 kb pdf) Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence Across Countries (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2290)
February 2000 • R. Fisman and R. Gatti
Abstract • Full text (35 kb pdf) The Media’s Role in Curbing Corruption (World Bank Institute Working Paper)
2000 • R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (208 kb pdf) Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case for Uniform Tariffs (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2216)
November 1999 • R. Gatti
Abstract • Full text (72 kb pdf) Corruption Under Moral Hazard (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2204)
October 1999 • G. S. Eskeland and H. Thiele
Abstract • Full text (285 kb pdf) Governance Matters (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2196)
October 1999 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Abstract • Full text (324 kb pdf) • Abstract and full text from SSRN • SÃntesis en español (33 kb pdf) • Full text in Russian (832 kb pdf) • View datasets New Frontiers in World Bank Programs (Technical Notes from USAID's Global Center for Democracy and Governance)
June 1999 • D. Kaufmann and P. Dininio
Full text Can Corruption Be Measured? Bank Offers Diagnostic Tools to Measure and Combat Corruption in Member Countries (from World Bank newsletter Bank's World)
June 1999 • Bank’s World publication staff
Article summary • Full text (118 kb pdf) Does ‘Grease Money’ Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce? (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7093)
April 1999 • D. Kaufmann and S. J. Wei
Abstract • Full text (1,084 kb pdf) New Frontiers in Diagnosing and Combating Corruption (World Bank PREMNote 7)
October 1998 • D. Kaufmann, S. Pradhan, and R. Ryterman
Abstract • Full text (200 kb pdf) • Versión en español (122 kb pdf) Challenges in the Next Stage of Anti-Corruption (from New Perspectives on Combating Corruption)
September 1998 • D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (382 kb pdf) • Versión en español (361 kb pdf) Pillars of Integrity: The Importance of Supreme Audit Institutions (from New Perspectives on Combating Corruption)
September 1998 • K. Dye and R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (168 kb pdf) Corruption and Development (in the IMF's Finance and Development)
March 1998 • C. Gray and D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (206 kb pdf) • Versión en español (185 kb pdf) • Texte complete en français (238 kb pdf) • Auf Deutsch (148 kb pdf) • Chinese version (906 kb pdf) • Full text in Arabic (807 kb pdf) Applying a Simple Measure of Good Governance to the Debate of Fiscal Decentralization (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1894)
March 1998 • J. Huther and A. Shah
Abstract • Full text (64 kb pdf) Social Marketing to Fight Corruption (World Bank Institute Working Paper)
1998 • G. S. Kindra and R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (193 kb pdf) High-Level Rent Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1780)
June 1997• J. Coolidge and S. Rose-Ackerman
Abstract • Full text (140 kb pdf) Corruption: The Facts (from Foreign Policy)
Summer 1997 • D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (39 kb pdf) Privatization and Corruption in Transition Economies (from Journal of International Affairs)
Winter 1997 • D. Kaufmann and P. Siegelbaum
Abstract • Full text (200 kb pdf)
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