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Eight Questions about Corruption
- J. Svensson
- Economics, Political Science
- 1 August 2005
This paper will discuss eight frequently asked questions about public corruption: (1) What is corruption? (2) Which countries are the most corrupt? (3) What are the common characteristics of…
Political budget cycles: Do they differ across countries and why?
- Min Shi, J. Svensson
- Economics
- 1 September 2006
Who Must Pay Bribes and How Much? Evidence from a Cross-Section of Firms
- J. Svensson
- Economics, Business
- 30 November 1999
This paper uses a unique data set on corruption containing quantitative information on bribe payments of Ugandan firms. The data has two striking features: not all firms report that they need to pa…
Are Corruption and Taxation Really Harmful to Growth? Firm-Level Evidence
- J. Svensson, Raymond J. Fisman
- Economics
- 30 November 1999
Local Capture: Evidence from a Central Government Transfer Program in Uganda
- R. Reinikka, J. Svensson
- Economics
- 1 May 2004
According to official statistics, 20 percent of Uganda's total public expenditure was spent on education in the mid-1990s, most of it on primary education. One of the large public programs was a…
Power to the People: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment of a Community-Based Monitoring Project in Uganda
- Martina Bjorkman Nyqvist, J. Svensson
- Medicine
- 1 June 2007
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When is foreign aid policy credible : aid dependence and conditionality
- J. Svensson
- Economics
- 22 September 2000
What Explains the Success or Failure of Structural Adjustment Programs?
- David L. Dollar, J. Svensson
- Economics
- 1 June 1998
In the 1980s development assistance shifted largely from financing investments (such as roads and dams) to promoting policy reform. This change came because of a growing awareness that developing…
Aid, Growth and Democracy
- J. Svensson
- Economics
- 1 November 1999
To the extent that aid is justified by the benefits to the recipient, rather than to the donor, it might be reasonably judged on two criteria: growth and poverty-alleviation. We study the first of…
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