Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Corruption
- Causes
- Political
- Misplaced
Incentives in
public services
delivery
- scarce benefits
and high costs
- Institutional design
- Power balance
- Transparency of checks and balances
- Degree of law enforcement
- Degree of centralization
- Geographical
and cultural
- Corruption practices
are ingrained in society
- Economic
- Degree of competitiveness
- Labour market:
relative wages
- Differences between public- public wages
- Differences between private- public
- Market structure
- Monopoly
- Oligopoly
- Etc...
- Definition
- "Misuse of public office for private gain"
- (Ackerman, 2008, Myint 2000 and Aidt 2011)
- Curruption trap
- Consequences
- Political
- Reduces welfare
- Negative impact on
efficacy of public
programmes
- Questionable
legitimacy of the
State in the eyes of
citizens
- Spiral
effects
- (i) The more corruption it is, more difficult is to catch them
- (ii) Honest people is discouraged to work in the goverment
- Economic
- Reduces
economic
growth
- Deters
investment
- Under-investment human capital
- Over-investment of public infrastructure
- Increases the
existence of
illegal
business
- Underground
economy/ black
markets
- Creates distortions of
factor markets
- Lower tax revenues
- Affects
income
distribution
- Inequality trap