Service delivery, poverty and corruption - common threads from diagnostic surveys
Anderson, James H | Recanatini, Francesca | Kaufmann, Daniel
In 1996 the World Bank began to discuss openly the issue of corruption and soon thereafter began to explicitly offer assistance to countries in combating corruption. Around the same time and in parallel with these efforts, there have been several new empirical studies on the link between the quality of government and development outcomes. This growing body of cross-country research has emphasized the key role of poor governance and corruption in lowering the standards of living and worsening the distribution of income among citizens. There are several mechanisms through which corruption exacerbates poverty and inequality.
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