Corruption, Growth, and Public Finances

By V. Tanzi, Hamid R. Davoodi. Social Science Research Network, 2000

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The paper discusses some channels through which corruption affects growth such as the impact of corruption on enterprises, on the allocation of talent, and on investment. It also discusses the impact of corruption on some aspects of public finance.

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Taxation, corruption, and growth (2016, unknown): “3 Tanzi and Davoodi (2000) and Romp and de Haan (2007) provide comprehensive discussions of the interlinkages among corruption, public finances, and economic development and growth.”
Economic Disparities and Life Satisfaction in European Regions (2010, background): “It is well documented that in Europe GDP per capita is highly correlated with levels and quality of basic facilities and services, such as transportation and communications systems, and with levels and quality of public institutions like schools and hospitals, as well as with low levels of crime and”
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GOOD GOVERNANCE AND CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS: EVIDENCE FROM DEVELOPING ECONOMIES (2012, background): “Control of corruption usually affecting revenues and expenditure side of government budget, (Mauro, 1998; Tanzi and Davoodi, 2001).”
Effect of Corruption on Tax Revenues in the Middle East (2007, background): “Papers by Tanzi and Davoodi (1997) and Friedman, Johnson, Kaufmann, and Zoido-Lobaton (2000), for example, have provided evidence that countries with more corruption tend to collect fewer tax revenues in relation to GDP, all else being equal.”
Corruption and Entrepreneurship: How Formal and Informal Institutions Shape Small Firm Behavior in Transition and Mature Market Economies (2010, background): “At the macro level, there is a negative association between corruption and economic development (Tanzi & Davoodi, 2001; Treisman, 2000).”
Taxes, corruption, and entry (2016, unknown): “In many developing countries, the government sector dominates (Tanzi and Davoodi, 2000) and public intervention in all spheres of public life is pervasive (Tanzi and Davoodi, 2000), so street level bureaucrats have ample opportunity to use discretion in applying tax policy.”
Law Enforcement, Municipal Budgets and Spillover Effects: Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment in Italy (2017, result): “It is worth noting that these results are not meant to identify the direct effect of corruption on public spending, though the presence of a decrease only on investment, and not in current spending, is in line with previous research showing that corruption can lead to potentially inefficient over-in”
Corruption and growth: The role of governance, public spending, and economic development (2014, background): “1 For example, see inter alia Leff (1964), Huntington (1968), Liu (1985, 1996), Fisman and Svensson (2007), Pellegrini and Gerlagh (2004), Ali and Isse (2003), Tanzi and Davoodi (2000), Tanzi and Davoodi (1998), Bardhan (1997), Mauro (1995), Aidt (2003), Abed and Gupta (2002).”
Military expenditure, threats, and growth (2003, background): “30 Tanzi and Davoodi (1997, 2000) find indirect evidence that corruption decreases growth by reducing government revenue and the productivity of public investment.”
CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF CORRUPTION: WHAT HAS PAST DECADE'S EMPIRICAL RESEARCH TAUGHT US? A SURVEY (2018, unknown): “One paper provided evidence that there was a significant relationship between the allocation of talent to unproductive activities and corruption, as well as higher levels of indirect taxation and corruption, thereby reducing growth rates (Tanzi and Davoodi, 2001).”