How bad is corruption? Cross-country evidence of the impact of corruption on economic prosperity

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 167-184

  Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; DATABASE; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; PRODUCTIVITY;

EID: 84855931399     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: 14679361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2011.00653.x     Document Type: Article

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