Using micro-surveys to measure and explain corruption

World Development

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 359-370

  Reinikka, Ritva ^a   Svensson, Jakob ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Corruption; Firms; Public services

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SURVEYING;

EID: 31344473134     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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