01005nam a22001337a 4500100003200000245003900032260003800071300000900109520064100118650001500759856007700774942000700851999001300858  a Olken, B. A. and Pande, R.  aCorruption in Developing Countries  aHarvardbHarvard Universityc2011  a48p.  aRecent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists’ ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a new generation of well-identified, micro-economic studies. Reviewing the evidence on corruption in developing countries these recent advances,they focused on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency consequences of corruption, and what determines the level of corruption. Robust evidence  found was that corruption responds to standard economic incentive theory, but also that effects of anti-corruption policies often attenuate as officials find alternate
strategies to pursue rents.  aCorruption  uiffoadatabase.trustafrica.org/iff/Corruption in Developing Countries.pdf  cCF  c478d478