How corruption affects service delivery and what can be done about it

International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 441-456

  Reinikka, Ritva ^a   Svensson, Jakob ^b  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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