New possibilities for cutting corruption in the public sector Personality tests and psychological profiling offer innovative ways for cutting corruption in the public sector of developing countries... Institutions & Political Economy Rema Hanna Vestal McIntyre Published 05.12.18
How to cut corruption in India in one simple move A local government information technology reform, designed to monitor and disperse money to beneficiaries, managed to indirectly reduce corruption... Technology & Innovation Clément Imbert Published 02.12.18
Transforming developing countries through private sector investment What do development finance institutions do, and how do they do it?... Finance Nick O’Donohoe Published 01.08.18
Growing out of corruption Economic growth can reduce corruption. A Vietnamese study shows that when employment in an industry doubled, bribery fell by 1.6 percentage points ... Institutions & Political Economy Jie Bai Seema Jayachandran Edmund Malesky Benjamin Olken Published 23.07.18
Evidence to practice: Context-based data collection Robin Burgess, director of the IGC, talks about the importance of careful data collection and the structure of civil service.*... Institutions & Political Economy Robin Burgess Published 03.06.18
How to organise public procurement More discretion in the selection of contractors facilitates corruption, increases contract expense, and decreases contractor efficiency... Public Economics Ferenc Szucs Published 19.04.18
Grease in the Wheel: Corruption and firms Emanuele Colonnelli investigates how randomised audits on government procurement contracts in Brazil affect the real economy and firm behaviour.... Firms Emanuele Colonnelli Published 01.02.18
Corruption, bribery, and public sector hiring in developing countries Government jobs are often allocated based on bribes and patronage. How does this process work, and can this lead to good outcomes?... Public Economics Jeff Weaver Published 04.01.18
Elections and corruption: Politics and public procurement in India Political interference in government contract allocation when ruling power changes hands, combined with lack of accountability, leads to corruption... Institutions & Political Economy Jonathan Lehne Jacob Shapiro Oliver Vanden Eynde Published 08.12.17