Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture : How Firms and Bureaucrats Shape the Business Environment in Transit / Hellman, S. Joel
April 2000 - In a new approach to measuring typically subjective variables, BEEPS - the 1999 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, the transition economies component of the World Business Environment Survey - quantitatively assesses governance from the perspective of about 3,000 fi...
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| Hauptverfasser: | Hellman, S. Joel |
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| Weitere Verfasser: | Kaufmann, Daniel, 1951- Jones, Geraint Schankerman, Mark |
| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: | Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 1999 |
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| Internet: | URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
| Zusammenfassung: | April 2000 - In a new approach to measuring typically subjective variables, BEEPS - the 1999 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey, the transition economies component of the World Business Environment Survey - quantitatively assesses governance from the perspective of about 3,000 firms in 20 countries. Unbundling the measurement of governance and corruption empirically suggests the importance of grand corruption in some countries, manifested in state capture by the corporate sector - through the purchase of decrees and legislation - and by graft in procurement. As a symptom of fundamental institutional weaknesses, corruption needs to be viewed within a broader governance framework. It thrives where the state is unable to reign over its bureaucracy, to protect property and contractual rights, or to provide institutions that support the rule of law. Furthermore, governance failures at the national level cannot be isolated from the interface between the corporate and state sectors, in particular from the heretofore underemphasized influence that firms may exert on the state. Under certain conditions, corporate strategies may exacerbate misgovernance at the national level. An in-depth empirical assessment of the links between corporate behavior and national governance can thus provide particular insights. The 1999 Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) - the transition economies component of the ongoing World Business Environment Survey - assesses in detail the various dimensions of governance from the perspective of about 3,000 firms in 20 countries. After introducing the survey framework and measurement approach, Hellman, Jones, Kaufmann, and Schankerman present the survey results, focusing on governance, corruption, and state capture. |
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| Beschreibung: | Weitere Ausgabe: Hellman, S. Joel: Measuring Governance, Corruption, and State Capture |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (50 Seiten) |
