Corruption and Development, Revisited

Jenny D. Balboa and Shinji Takenaka
Additional contact information
Jenny D. Balboa: Philippine Institute for Development Studies

Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: Graft and corruption is considered to be one of the biggest threat to development. Several studies had shown the tremendous impact of corruption in the economy. For a number of developing countries, a huge portion of government resources are lost and wasted due to corrupt activities, further plunging the country to poverty and underdevelopment. Various efforts to combat this social ill have been explored. However, the problem continues to persist. This short paper revisits the issue and aims to contribute to the growing literature of understanding corruption in developing economies and creating the necessary policy response. It answers the following questions : What are the different forms of corruption? What drives corruption? What has been done to address the issue? The Philippine case is also briefly discussed.

Keywords: political economy; corruption; development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.eaber.org/node/23088 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 301 [REDIRECT LOOP] Moved Permanently (http://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088 [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.eaber.org/node/23088)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eab:develo:23088

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Shiro Armstrong ().