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Measuring Corruption: Myths and Realities
May, 2006 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay and M. Mastruzzi
First Draft (27 kb PDF)

Legal Corruption
October, 2005
D. Kaufmann and P. C. Vicente, Second Draft
Abstract
Full Text (765 kb PDF)

Myths and Realities of Governance and Corruption
September 2005
D. Kaufmann
Abstract
Full Text (129 kb PDF)

Measuring Governance Using Cross-Country Perceptions Data
August 2005 • Daniel Kaufmann, Aart Kraay, and Massimo Mastruzzi
AbstractFull Text (236 kb PDF)

Corruption, Governance and Security: Challenges for the Rich Countries and the World
September 2004 • D. Kaufmann
AbstractFull text (1.35 mb PDF)

Governance Redux: The Empirical Challenge
2004 • D. Kaufmann Chapter in Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004, World Economic Forum
AbstractFull text (177 kb PDF)

Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996–2002
May 2003 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay and M. Mastruzzi
AbstractFull text (604 kb PDF)

Rethinking Governance: Empirical Lessons Challenge Orthodoxy
March 2003 • D. Kaufmann
AbstractFull text (232 kb PDF) • Executive Summary (20 kb PDF) • Abstracto en españolTexto completo en español (117 kb PDF)

Governance and Growth: Causality Which Way?
February 2003 • D. Kaufmann and A. Kraay
AbstractFull text (48 kb PDF)

The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Chapter 9 in Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing Countries, eds. G. Fields and G. Pfefferman, Kluwer Academic Publishers
2003 • G. Batra, D. Kaufmann and A.H.W. Stone
AbstractFull text (113 kb PDF)

Growth Without Governance (Economía, Volume 3, Number 1)
Fall 2002 • D. Kaufmann and A. Kraay
Abstract • Full text (234 kb PDF)

Voice or Public Sector Management? An Empirical Investigation of Determinants of Public Sector Performance based on a Survey of Public Officials
June 2002 • D. Kaufmann, G. Mehrez and T. Gurgur
AbstractFull text (897 kb PDF)

Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?
February 2002 • D. Kaufmann, M. Mastruzzi and D. Zavaleta
AbstractFull text (1.17 Mb PDF)

Confronting the Challenge of State Capture in Transition Economies (from the IMF's Finance and Development)
September 2001 • J. Hellman and D. Kaufmann
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Texto completo en español (306 kb PDF) • Texte complete en français (306 kb PDF)

Coalition-Building to Fight Corruption
November 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (91 kb PDF)

Slide presentation on Governance and Controlling Corruption Is Central for Socioeconomic Development and Growth: New Reports and Evidence
November 2000 • D. Kaufmann

Complete slide set (568 kb PowerPoint presentation)

Reducing Corruption at the Local Level
October 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (113 kb PDF)

Seize the State, Seize the Day: State Capture, Corruption, and Influence in Transition Economies (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2444)
September 2000 • J. Hellman, G. Jones, and D. Kaufmann
Abstract
Synthesis (168 kb PDF) • Full text (464 kb PDF) • PowerPoint presentation (568 kb) Abstracto en español
Synthesis in Russian (1.2 Mb PDF)

Tax Evasion, Corruption, and the Remuneration of Heterogeneous Inspectors (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2394)
July 2000 • W. Wane
Abstract • Full text (341 kb PDF)

Governance Matters: From Measurement to Action (from the IMF's Finance and Development)
June 2000 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Full text
View datasets Full text in Arabic (426 kb PDF) • Full text in Russian (192 kb PDF) • Versión en español (122 kb PDF) • Version française (122 kb PDF) • Full text in Chinese (819 kb PDF)

Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism (from Journal of Public Economics)
June 2000 • S. Johnson, D. Kaufmann, J. McMillan, and C. Woodruff
Abstract • Full text (110 kb PDF)

Corruption and the Composition of Foreign Direct Investment: Firm-Level Evidence (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2360)
June 2000 • B. K. Smarzynska and S. J. Wei
Abstract • Full text (80 kb PDF)

Dodging the Grabbing Hand: The Determinants of Unofficial Activity in 69 Countries (from Journal of Public Finance)
June 2000 • E. Friedman, S. Johnson, D. Kaufmann, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
AbstractFull text

Reducing Corruption: Lessons from Venezuela (World Bank PREMNote 39)
May 2000 • M. González de Asis
Abstract • Full text (153 kb PDF)

Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture: How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transition Economies (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2312)
April 2000 • J. Hellman, G. Jones, D. Kaufmann, and M. Schankerman
AbstractFull text (600 kb PDF)

Decentralization and Corruption: Evidence Across Countries (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2290)
February 2000 • R. Fisman and R. Gatti
Abstract • Full text (35 kb PDF)

The Media’s Role in Curbing Corruption (World Bank Institute Working Paper)
2000 • R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (208 kb PDF)

Corruption and Trade Tariffs, or a Case for Uniform Tariffs (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2216)
November 1999 • R. Gatti
Abstract • Full text (72 kb PDF)

Corruption Under Moral Hazard (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2204)
October 1999 • G. S. Eskeland and H. Thiele
Abstract • Full text (285 kb PDF)

Governance Matters (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2196)
October 1999 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Abstract • Full text (324 kb PDF) • Abstract and full text from SSRNSíntesis en español (33 kb PDF)
Full text in Russian (832 kb PDF) View datasets

Governance Matters (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2196)
October 1999 • D. Kaufmann, A. Kraay, and P. Zoido-Lobatón
Abstract • Full text (324 kb PDF) • Síntesis en español (33 kb PDF)

New Frontiers in World Bank Programs (Technical Notes from USAID's Global Center for Democracy and Governance)
June 1999 • D. Kaufmann and P. Dininio
Full text

Can Corruption Be Measured? Bank Offers Diagnostic Tools to Measure and Combat Corruption in Member Countries (from World Bank newsletter Bank's World)
June 1999 • Bank’s World publication staff
Article summary • Full text (118 kb PDF)

Does ‘Grease Money’ Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce? (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 7093)
April 1999 • D. Kaufmann and S. J. Wei
Abstract • Full text (1,084 kb PDF)

Corruption in Economic Development: Beneficial Grease, Minor Annoyance, or Major Obstacle? (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2048)
February 1999 • S. J. Wei

Abstract • Full text (76 kb PDF)

Transparency, Liberalization, and Financial Crises (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2286)
February 1999 • G. Mehrez and D. Kaufmann
Abstract • Full text (74 kb PDF) • Síntesis en español (33 kb PDF)

New Frontiers in Diagnosing and Combating Corruption (World Bank PREMNote 7)
October 1998 • D. Kaufmann, S. Pradhan, and R. Ryterman
Abstract • Full text (200 kb PDF) • Versión en español (122 kb PDF) • Version française (36 kb PDF)

Pillars of Integrity: The Importance of Supreme Audit Institutions (from New Perspectives on Combating Corruption volume)
September 1998 • K. Dye and R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (168 kb PDF)

Challenges in the Next Stage of Anti-Corruption (from New Perspectives on Combating Corruption volume)
September 1998 • D. Kaufmann
AbstractFull text (382 kb PDF) • Versión en español (361 kb PDF)

Applying a Simple Measure of Good Governance to the Debate of Fiscal Decentralization (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1894)
March 1998 • J. Huther and A. Shah
Abstract • Full text (64 kb PDF)

Corruption and Development (in the IMF's Finance and Development)
March 1998 • C. Gray and D. Kaufmann
AbstractFull text (206 kb PDF) • Versión en español (185 kb PDF) • Texte complete en français (238 kb PDF) • Auf Deutsch (148 kb PDF) • Chinese version (906 kb PDF) • Full text in Arabic (807 kb PDF)

Social Marketing to Fight Corruption (World Bank Institute Working Paper)
1998 • G. S. Kindra and R. Stapenhurst
Abstract • Full text (193 kb PDF)

High-Level Rent Seeking and Corruption in African Regimes: Theory and Cases (World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1780)
June 1997• J. Coolidge and S. Rose-Ackerman
Abstract • Full text (140 kb PDF)

Corruption: The Facts (from Foreign Policy)
Summer 1997 • D. Kaufmann
AbstractFull text (39 kb PDF)

Privatization and Corruption in Transition Economies (from Journal of International Affairs)
Winter 1997 • D. Kaufmann and P. Siegelbaum
Abstract • Full text (200 kb PDF)

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