Is Transparency the Key to Reducing Corruption in Resource-Rich Countries?

World Development

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 521-532

  Kolstad, Ivar ^a   Wiig, Arne ^a  

^a CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

corruption; EITI; natural resources; transparency

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DEVELOPING WORLD; NATURAL RESOURCE; PARALLEL ECONOMY; PUBLIC GOODS; PUBLIC SPENDING; RESOURCE USE;

EID: 59649086372     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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