How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption?

preview-18
  • How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption? Book Detail

  • Author : Amit Ahuja
  • Release Date : 2023
  • Publisher :
  • Genre :
  • Pages : 0
  • ISBN 13 :
  • File Size : 45,45 MB

How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption? by Amit Ahuja PDF Summary

Book Description: Economic growth's effects on government efforts to combat citizen-facing, public-service corruption varies in a puzzling way across services. Over two high-growth decades in India, those services undergoing the largest increases in demand, and therefore in rent-extraction opportunities, saw more robust anti-corruption reforms than did services experiencing weaker or even negative demand growth. In this paper, the authors build theoretical models that can explain why growth induced the state to more aggressively shut down its fastest-growing rent opportunities. They show that the net effect of growth on anti-corruption efforts in a service depends upon the balance of three growth-induced outcomes - two negative and one positive. Exit of richer, high-voice citizens from the service reduces public pressure for reforms, while entry of poorer low-voice citizens enhances opportunities for rent extraction without increasing accountability. Conversely, growth empowers existing service users to demand anti-corruption reforms. The balance between exit, entry and empowerment forces explains why growth leads government to clean up corruption in services that the middle classes and rich continue to use, and concentrates corruption in the services they leave behind. By inducing stronger anticorruption efforts in the services used by richer citizens, growth makes everyday corruption more of a “tax on the poor”. We illustrate how growth disproportionately empowered richer citizens to successfully demand reforms by analyzing changes to the passport service and the railway reservation system. We also validate the model's main mechanisms statistically through a case study of India's rural elementary schools, where anti-corruption reforms have lagged. These results suggest that designing services to discourage exit by their richer users could help to harness the anti-corruption benefits of growth for the rest. - Keywords: Corruption, Economic Growth, Public Services, Voice, Exit, Entry, Anti-corruption reforms, Accountability, State Institutions, Passport issuance, Railway Reservation, Teacher Absenteeism. - JEL Codes: H11, H42, D73, O12, O17.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption? books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption?

How Does Growth Affect Everyday Corruption?

File Size : 48,48 MB
Total View : 7262 Views
DOWNLOAD

Economic growth's effects on government efforts to combat citizen-facing, public-service corruption varies in a puzzling way across services. Over two high-grow

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

Crossing the Global Quality Chasm

File Size : 81,81 MB
Total View : 5270 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explicit commitm

Corruption and Government

Corruption and Government

File Size : 33,33 MB
Total View : 823 Views
DOWNLOAD

This new edition of a 1999 classic shows how institutionalized corruption can be fought through sophisticated political-economic reform.