IMF Working Papers

Corruption, Governmental Activities, and Markets

By Vito Tanzi

September 1, 1994

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Vito Tanzi. Corruption, Governmental Activities, and Markets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Paper discusses the factors that contribute to the spread of corruption as well as the implications of corruption for markets and for public sector activities. It is argued that corruption can be contained mainly by a scaling down of the public sector activities that stimulate its growth.

Subject: Civil service, Corruption, Crime, Economic sectors, Labor, Public employment, Public sector, Revenue administration, Tax evasion

Keywords: Civil service, Corruption, Government contract, Government decision, Government employee, Government have-over, Government policy, Public employment, Public sector, South Asia, Tax evasion, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    23

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/099

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0991994

  • ISBN:

    9781451852202

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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