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Decentralization and Corruption: New Cross-Country Evidence
Maksym Ivanyna,Anwar Shah +1 more
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In this article, the authors attempt to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a worldwide context by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such a relationship and using more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of 158 countries.Abstract:
We attempt to improve the understanding and measurement of decentralization and its relationship with corruption in a worldwide context. This is done by presenting the conceptual underpinnings of such a relationship as well as using more defensible measures of both decentralization in its various dimensions as well as corruption for a sample of 158 countries. It is the first paper that treats various tiers of local governments (below the intermediate order of government) as the unit of comparative analysis. By pursuing rigorous econometric analysis we demonstrate that decentralization, when properly measured to mean moving government closer to people by empowering local governments, is shown to have a significant negative effect on the incidence of corruption regardless of the choice of the estimation procedures or the measures of corruption used. In terms of various dimensions of decentralized local governance, political decentralization matters even when we control for fiscal decentralization. Further v...read more
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey.
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey
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Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence across Countries
Raymond Fisman,Roberta Gatti +1 more
TL;DR: Fisman and Gatti as mentioned in this paper examined the relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties, and found that the origin of a country's legal system performs extremely well as an instrument for decentralization.
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Decentralization and Corruption : Evidence across Countries
Raymond Fisman,Roberta Gatti +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between decentralization of government activities and the extent of rent extraction by private parties is examined empirically by looking at the cross-country relationship between fiscal decentralization and corruption as measured by a number of different indices.